May 25 / PETRA

Today after breakfast we visit Petra (your English-speaking guide will be with you for around two hours, afterward you are free to explore the valley); the lost city in the middle of nowhere with its huge facades carved into the rocks that will take your breath away around each corner. It is a vast, unique city, carved into the sheer rock face by the Nabateans, an industrious Arab people who settled here more than 2,000 years ago, turning it into an important junction for the silk, spice and other trade routes that linked China, India and southern Arabia with Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. Petra has been featured in Hollywood blockbusters such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "The Mummy Returns." Beyond Al Khazneh you are surrounded on both sides by hundreds of Petra's curved and built structures, soaring temples, elaborate royal tombs, a curved Nabatean theater (seating 3,000 people), large and small houses, burial chambers, banquet halls, water channels and Reservoirs, bathes, monumental staircases, cultic installations, arched gates, public buildings and paved streets.

 

May 26 / AMMAN - MT. NEBO

Today we will embark on a spiritual tour. We will visit Madaba "The City of Mosaics" and the city of Christianity, with very impressive Greek Orthodox ruins and churches. The Madaba Mosaic, located in St. George Church, shows the map of Middle East and is the most important and the most beautiful. After Madaba drive onwards to Mt. Nebo from where Moses first viewed the Holy Land; here we will have the chance to look through Moses’ eyes. Afterward, drive to visit one of the Jordanian handicraft shops, where guests will look over the shoulders of mosaic art workers creating unique and traditional styles with the Byzantine influence. Transfer to Allenby Bridge for crossing to Israel. You will be met by your guide and driver for Israel. After a drive west toward the Mediterranean, you’ll proceed an hour’s drive through Tel Aviv and along the coastal route to our seaside accommodations in Netanya.

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