Trek to Ancient Petra Jordan
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TREK TO ANCIENT PETRA JORDAN Highlights • Experience the beauty and culture of Jordan on this exhilarating trekking adventure • Marvel at the views from Mount Nebo of the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea • Join the local Bedouins for a magical desert adventure and learn their customs and culture • Trek through wadis and arid desert, cross the dramatic mountains, sandstone canyons and wild- sculpted escarpments • Witness interesting archaeological landscapes and areas rich in prehistoric activity • Climb small hilltops for an unforgettable sunset over the desert plains • Camp in Bedouin tents under a blanket of star filled skies • Get off the beaten track around ancient Petra and be dazzled by the famous Treasury building • Spend a day floating effortlessly in the Dead Sea • Receive a complimentary Water-To-Go bottle when you join this trip to minimise our plastic footprint in this green destination of Jordan! www.yourcompany.com 1 WELCOME 'ahlaan bik Overview This adventure captures Jordan’s desert landscapes at its best and culminates with getting off the beaten track in the famous ancient city of Petra. Jordan has welcomed travellers for centuries from camel caravans to intrepid adventurers. With its World Heritage Sites, friendly people and awe-inspiring desert landscapes, this country is a trekkers paradise. You’ll experience epic landscapes of weathered sandstone and reddened dunes, encompassed by a salt sea at the lowest point on earth, and trek past canyons flowing with seasonal water, oases of palm trees and explosions of springtime flowers scattered across arid hills. Your route winds its way along dramatic mountains, through spectacular wadi’s and vast ever- changing desert landscapes where you will enjoy delicious camp meals and a good night’s rest under a blanket of stars. Finishing in Petra, the ancient Nabataean city framed by Jordan’s sandstone escarpments, it is the jewel in the crown of the country’s many antiquities. With sites flung over a vast rocky landscape and a mood that changes with the shifting light as the sun moves across the sky, this is a highlight that rewards you as a long distance trekker. Plus there’s time to relax with an effortless dip in the Dead S Sea or cool off in your hotel swimming pool before enjoying a delicious celebration meal on your last night in Jordan. www.yourcompany.com 2 TRIP SUMMARY Activity: Hike, bike & kayak Group size: 8 – 24 people Duration: 9 days & 8 nights Level of difficulty: Active days: 5 days Moderate / Challenging Accommodation: Hotels & Bedouin camps Dates 2021/22: Feb / Nov Cost: Deposit: £175 per person (*2022 prices subject to change) Remaining balance: £1350 per person www.yourcompany.com adventurousewe.co.uk / t r e k - to- a n c i e n t - p e t r a - j o r d a n / 3 ROUTE MAP Get ready for an adventure DAY 1 DAY 5 Flight from UK to Queen Alia International Trek Wadi Abu Sakakeen – Wadi Feith – Agla – Airport Jordan and private transfer to Gbour Whedat Amman DAY 6 DAY 2 Trek Gabur Al Waheidat – Alfarsh – El Maisra Private transfer from Amman – Mt Nebo – DAY 7 Kerak – Shobak Castle – Mansura camp Trek to Ancient Petra DAY 3 DAY 8 Trek Mansura – Wadi Gwair – Wadi Feynan Petra – Dead Sea DAY 4 DAY 9 Trek Wadi Feynan – Hamada – Wadi Abu Dead Sea Hotel – return private transfer to Queen Sakakeen Alia International Airport for your flight home www.adventurousewe.co.uk/www.yourcompany.com adventurousewe.co.uk / t r e k - to- a n c i e n t - p e t r a - j o r d a n / 4 ITINERARY 2 boots. 1 ancient desert. 5 day trek. 1 epic journey with local Bedouin THE CHALLENGE – to trek for 5 days through spectacular desert landscape, camping under a blanket of start to reach the ancient city of Petra, Journey through some of the most spectacular desert scenery in the world which has been eroded for millennia forming dramatic mountains (known as jebels) that rise out of the desert sands. Accompanied by local Bedouin you’ll learn their culture and camp as they do, under the stars. Reaching the ancient rock city of Petra you’ll get off the beaten track to marvel at this majestic city followed by a relaxing float in the famous Dead Sea. DAY 1 DAY 2 Flight from UK to Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan Private transfer from Amman – Mt Nebo – Kerak – Shobak Castle – Mansura (overnight) Flight from London UK to Jordan (approx 5 hours) After breakfast you will be transferred in an air-conditioned minibus down to Mount Nebo. At 1,000m, this mountain is a very important Christian site for it was here, on the On signing up for the trip, we will provide you with the recommended flights to book edge of a ridge overlooking the Dead Sea, that Moses first caught sight of the or alternately, we can book the flights for you through our ATOL protected Flight Holy Land, having led his people from Sinai. Mount Nebo offers fantastic views of the Agent at an additional cost. Flights are not included in your package to give you Jordan valley and the Dead Sea, with the West Bank city of Jericho visible from the the flexibility to travel from your nearest airport, use your frequent flyer points or summit and Jerusalem apparent on very clear days. extend your stay in Jordan if you wish. The recommended flights for this will include airport transfers in Jordan. There are direct flights from London and some major Lunch will be in a local restaurant near the imposing Crusader castle of Kerak. This is the airports across the UK. Flights are operated by British Airways, Royal Jordanian, largest and best-preserved of the Crusader Castles in the region. It was built in 1132 by Easyjet & Ryan Air and cost upwards £350pp economy return depending on which Baldwin of Jerusalem and sits on top of a steep outcrop, an almost impregnable flights and when you book. position. It became famous at the time of the Crusades as one of the chain of fortresses used in the Holy War against Islam. From here you will continue your road journey south You will be transferred by private minibus from the airport to your hotel in Amman. enjoying the fantastic views over magnificent Wadi Araba before briefly stretching your On arrival you will have time to get to know your fellow team-mates, make final legs at Shobak Castle. You will then arrive at Mansura where your campsite awaits and preparations for your trek and depending on your flight time, explore the streets of dinner will be served. modern Amman. Included Included Transfer: Private air conditioned vehicle transfer Transfer: Private air conditioned vehicle transfer from airport to Accommodation: Bedouin camp Amman Meals: Breakfast and dinner Accommodation: Hotel (twin share basis – share & save) Meals: Not included www.yourcompany.com adventurousewe.co.uk / t r e k - to- a n c i e n t - p e t r a - j o r d a n / 5 ITINERARY CONTINUED 2 boots. 1 ancient desert. 5 day trek. 1 epic journey with local Bedouin DAY 3 DAY 5 Trek Mansura – Wadi Gwair – Wadi Feynan Trek Wadi Abu Sakakeen – Wadi Feith – Agla – Gbour Whedat Today your trek will start along the impressive Shara mountains. The barren landscape then Following breakfast in camp, today’s route takes you into Wadi Feith, a narrow canyon changes as you enter Wadi Gwair and wind your way through to emerge in the late with its year round running stream. From here you will then venture down into Wadi afternoon in a broad valley. You will pass palms, reeds and oleander bushes that blossom in Sahawa. The trail then heads up to your lunch spot at Tabqa Agla. After lunch you will the spring. The Wadi Feinan gorge has an interesting archaeological landscape and was take a Bedouin trail with beautiful views over Wadi Araba to Gabur Al Waheidat. an area rich in prehistoric activity. Your route will take you past the remains of a late Roman Tonight’s camp is on a spectacular pass from which you can see the whole of the route citadel, copper mines, elaborate water systems and settlements with Neolithic houses, we trekked so far giving you a huge sense of achievement. some even preserved to two storeys. The end of the day will see you trek into your campsite ready for a well deserved meal and a night camped under the stars. Included Accommodation: Bedouin camp Included Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Accommodation: Bedouin camp Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner DAY 6 Trek Gabur Al Waheidat – Alfarsh – El Maisra DAY 4 Following breakfast in camp, you will hike down into a fertile green valley before Trek Wadi Feynan – Hamada – Wadi Abu Sakakeen ascending an exposed ridge-top. The climb is short but steep and the views from the Following breakfast in camp, your trek follows the outskirts of the Shara Mountains and top are jaw-dropping. You are an impressive kilometre above the desert plains below. through the Wadi Araba, which is like a small rocky desert called a Hamada with scattered After lunch your route descends down through a wild valley and past sandstone Acacia trees. The views across the wadi, part of the Great Rift Valley, are an irresistible domes and cliffs to little Petra. This gives you your first taste of the amazing Nabataean distraction, and looking back you will be in ore of the vast panoramic landscape which culture. There’s time to visit the Neolithic village of al-Baidah and then enjoy afternoon stretches for miles.