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Experience unmatched tourism services featuring magnificent world heritage sites such as :
   
  • Petra - the new 7th World Wonder
  • Petra by Night
  • The Desert of Wadi Rum
  • Jerash
  • Ajloun
  • Um Qays
  • The Fortress of Kerak
  • Madaba
  • Bethany ( Baptism Site ) beyond the Jordan
  • Jordan valley & the Dead Sea
  • Mount Nebo
  • Amman
  • The Desert Castles
  • Shobak - Crusader castle
  • Ajloun Castle
  • Hammamat (Hot Springs )Ma’een , and many more

Desert adventures  offers some of the most out-of-the-ordinary Jordan tours and vacations. Many of the Jordan tour packages feature unique opportunities pertaining to Jordan tourism, that you are not likely to find anywhere else.

   
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Jordan has a lot to offer to its visitors.

Our itineraries are carefully planned to maximize your clients' available time while incorporating more than the obvious points of interest, adding elements of surprise and hidden treasures found well off the beaten path. We also ensure that your clients have time to relax and enjoy the beauty and diversity of our country. We believe that Jordan is the ultimate unique destination, and we strive to show it in its true colors. We only use fluent, knowledgeable, handpicked certified guides and choose the safest, most reliable drivers and transport companies.

 

PETRA BY NIGHT

A Rose - red city, half as old as the time

 

The giant red mountains and vast mausoleums of a departed race have nothing in common with modern civilization, and ask nothing of it except to be appreciated at their true value - as one of the greatest wonders ever wrought by Nature and Man.

 

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little petra, al beidha

 

After Petra, Al Beidha or Little Petra is the next most important site in Wadi Musa. This site is only a few kilometers from Petra .
 Little Petra is literally hidden away in the center of a mountain with a classical temple standing guard outside the mini-siq. Little Petra appears to have been an important suburb of the city of Petra and is at the point where several ancient caravan routes met. The routes linked Wadi Araba with Gaza, Egypt and the Mediterranean coast. Beidha Neolithic Village.

 

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madaba - fragment of the past are revealed in and around this famous city of mosaics

 

Just 30 kilometers from Amman, along the 5,000-year-old Kings´ Highway, is one of the most memorable places in the Holy Land. After passing through a string of ancient sites, the first city you reach is Madaba, known as the “City of Mosaics".

 

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jerash -  a rome away from rome

 

The ancient city of Jerash boasts an unbroken chain of human occupation dating back more than 6,500 years.
Jerash lies on a plain surrounded by hilly wooded areas and fertile basins. Conquered by General Pompey in 63 BC, it came under Roman rule and was one of the ten great Roman cities, the Decapolis League.

 

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bethany beyond the jordan

 

Less than two kilometers east of the Jordan River is an important place associated with the lives of Jesus and John the Baptist (pbut) - the settlement of Bethany, where John lived and baptized.

 

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mount nebo

 

From Mount Nebo’s windswept promontory, overlooking the Dead Sea, the Jordan River Valley, Jericho and the distant hills of Jerusalem, Moses viewed the Holy Land of Canaan that he would never enter.  He died and was buried in Moab, "in the valley opposite Beth-peor". His tomb remains unknown. After consulting the Oracle, Jeremiah reportedly hid the Ark of the Covenant, the Tent and the Altar of Incense at Mount Nebo.

 

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jordan valley and the dead sea

Nature’s living miracle, A place to rejuvenate and restore both body and soul
 

Without a doubt, the world’s most amazing place, the Jordan Rift Valley is a dramatic, beautiful landscape, which at the Dead Sea, is over 400 meters (1,312 ft.) below sea level. The lowest point on the face of the earth, this vast, stretch of water receives a number of incoming rivers, including the River Jordan.

 

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wadi rum

 

A journey to Wadi Rum is a journey to another world. A vast, silent place, timeless and starkly beautiful. Wadi Rum is one of Jordan's main tourist attractions being the most stunning desert scape in the World, lying 320 km southwest of Amman,120 km south of Petra, and only 68 km north of Aqabaa

 

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amman

A modern city Built on the sands of time
 

Amman, the modern and ancient capital of Jordan, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the World. The city's modern buildings blend with the remnants of ancient civilizations. The profusion of gleaming white houses kebab stalls with roasting meat, and tiny cafes where rich Arabian coffee is sipped in the afternoon sunshine, conjure a mood straight from a thousand and one nights. Amman was known in the Old Testament as Rabbath-Ammon, the capital of the Ammonites around 1200 BC; it was also referred to as "the City of Waters".

 

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the fortress of kerak

 
The magnificent Crusader fortress of Kerak soars above its valleys and hills like a great ship riding waves of rock. Kerak's origins go back long before the Crusaders; the earliest remains are Iron Age. The fortress, located 124 km south of Amman, was built in 1142 by Payen le Bouteiller, lord of Montreal and of the province of Oultre Jourdain, on the remains of earlier citadels, which date back to Nabataean times.
 

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the desert castles

 

The Desert Castles, which were built mostly under the Umayyad's (661-750 AD), stand as an evidence to the beginnings of Arab architectural civilization. They are located east of Amman, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.Different assumptions were made about the main function of these original monuments of early Islamic art; residences, weekend cottages, caravanserais, or hunting lodges for the Omayyad rulers, they were also used as the domain of Omayyad princes in the 8th Century.

 

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hammanat (hot springs) ma'een

 

The hot springs and baths of Hammamat Ma’een have been enjoyed for therapeutic and leisure pursuits for thousands of years.

 

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umm qays

 

Situated 110 km north of Amman on a broad promontory 378 meters above sea level with a magnificent view over the Yarmouk River, the Golan Heights, and Lake Tiberias, this town was known as Gadara, one of the most brilliant ancient Greco-Roman cities of the Decapolis; and according to the Bible, the spot where Jesus (pbuh) cast out the Devil from two demoniacs (mad men) into a herd of pigs (Mathew 8:28-34).

 

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ajloun castle (qala'a el-rabath)

 

Through a beautiful pine-forest and olive groves, brings you to the town of Ajloun, where Hadrian stayed over the winter of 129-30 AD, and built himself an arch well outside the town, leaving unbonded its sides for future city walls to come out to meet it. Here you will find the Castle of Ajloun or Qalaat Errabadh (Arabic for "Hilltop Castle") from which there is a splendid view westwards into the Jordan Valley.

 

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shobak - crusader castle

 

The castle is perched on top of a small hill northeast of the town of Shobak. Inside the fortress there are two churches,  the first of which is to the left of the entrance and up the stairs. There are ruins of baths, cisterns and rainwater  pipes, in addition to millstones for pressing olives, a few archways and other works which have stood the test of time.

 

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pella, jordan

 

Magnificently set in a fold of the hills that rise from the Jordan Valley 78 km north of Amman, Pella; known in Arabic as Tabaqat Fahl; is one of the most ancient sites in Jordan and a favorite of archaeologists being exceptionally rich in antiquities.

 

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aqaba, jordan

 

The Red Sea resort of Aqaba, which was in ancient times, the main port for shipments from the Red Sea to the Far East, known by the names of Aila, Ailana, Elana, Ailath, Elath, Ayla and Wayla.

 

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dana biosphere reserve

 

Is the only reserve in Jordan that includes the four different bio-geographical zones of the country; Mediterranean, Irano-Turanian, Saharo Arabian and Sudanian penetration.

 

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mujib nature reserve

 

Covers an area of 212 km2 , Bordering the Dead Sea at 416 meters below sea level, the Mujib Nature Reserve surrounds Wadi Mujib, a deep and majestic canyon that cuts through the rugged highlands and drains into the Dead Sea.

 

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azraq wetland reserve

 

Established  to conserve the uniquely precious oasis located in the heart of Jordan’s eastern desert, between a limestone desert in the west and a basalt desert in the east. It is distinguished by lush marshland and natural water collections that form glittering pools and streams, giving Azraq its name, which is the Arabic word for ‘blue’.

 

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wadi feynan

 

Escape the beaten path. A sensory experience awaits.

Deep in the heart of the mountainous Dana Biosphere Reserve, at the end of a rugged track, an idyllic candle-lit lodge rests in the magnificent Wadi Feynan.

 

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