The fabled city of Petra--a marvel carved from living stone, “Like a fairy-tale city,” the great adventurer Gertrude Bell described it, “all pink and wonderful, surely the most beautiful sight I have ever seen.”—is merely one of Jordan’s many ancient and modern treasures. (Another is its charming people, who take pride in their very definitely deserved reputation for consummate hospitality.)
At Geographic Expeditions, we journey through the stunning spectrum of Jordanian marvels. In epic Wadi Rum, we camp in Bedouin goat hair tents pitched under infinite desert skies, and take our meals roasted over desert sand (the wadi is still very much as Lawrence of Arabia encountered it: "vast, echoing and God-like." We roam the wondrous Greek and Roman ruins at Pella and Jerash. We snorkel and sail in the Gulf of Aqaba. And we luxuriate at the Dead Sea, pampered with soothing mudpacks and spa treatments or, if that seems too energetic, we simply float.
Egypt and Jordan: The Nile and the Sultan's Road
Highlights: Cairo, Giza Pyramids, Valley of the Kings & Queens, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Amman, Petra, Dead Sea
Custom Journeys in Jordan
Highlights: Sea-salt mud baths; Dead Sea resort; desert castles; King’s Highway
