Classical Tour Highlights 7 Days 6 Nights

Your journey with Hajjat Tours begins at Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA), where our representative will meet and assist you through arrivals and transfer you to your Amman hotel. The evening is yours — Amman is one of the Middle East’s most liveable and welcoming cities, with excellent restaurants, rooftop bars, and a downtown neighbourhood that rewards an evening walk. Overnight in Amman.

After breakfast, begin with a guided city tour of Amman — the Citadel (Jabal al-Qal’a), with its Temple of Hercules and sweeping views across the city’s hillsides, and the Roman Theatre, a 6,000-seat amphitheatre hewn into the hillside in the 2nd century AD and still standing in remarkable condition. The tour continues through Amman’s vibrant downtown — the markets, the street food, the call to prayer echoing between old stone buildings — before heading north.
Jerash is one of the great Roman provincial cities of the ancient world, and it earns that status the moment you walk through the Hadrian’s Arch and into the Oval Plaza. The colonnaded Cardo Maximus, the Temple of Artemis, the Nymphaeum, the Hippodrome, and two well-preserved theatres together create an archaeological landscape of extraordinary completeness. Unlike many Roman sites, Jerash rewards slow exploration — there is always another carved detail, another inscription, another view down the colonnaded street that opens up as you move through it.
From Jerash, continue to Ajloun — the 12th-century castle of Qal’at Ar-Rabad perched on a forested hilltop with commanding views over the Jordan Valley and three surrounding wadis. Built by a nephew of Saladin to control the region and counter the Crusader castles to the west, it is one of the finest surviving examples of early Islamic military architecture in the Levant. Return to Amman for overnight.

After breakfast, the road heads south along the King’s Highway — one of the oldest continuously used routes in human history, and one of the most scenic drives in Jordan. The route cuts through highland plateaus, traditional villages, and dramatic valley landscapes before descending toward the ancient south.
The first stop is Madaba — the City of Mosaics. At the Church of Saint George, the famous 6th-century Byzantine mosaic map of the Holy Land covers the floor in extraordinary detail: Jerusalem at the centre, the Jordan River descending to the Dead Sea, the Nile Delta in Egypt, and dozens of towns and cities of the ancient world all rendered in coloured stone. It is one of the oldest surviving cartographic representations of the region and one of the most visited sites in Jordan.
From Madaba, the route continues to Mount Nebo — the hilltop from which Moses is believed to have seen the Promised Land before his death. The views from the summit are among the most stirring in the country: the Jordan Valley below, the Dead Sea glittering to the south, Jericho across the river, and on the clearest days, the distant silhouette of Jerusalem. The Memorial Church of Moses on the summit contains some of the finest early Christian mosaics in Jordan, and the serpentine cross at the viewpoint has become one of the country’s most recognisable landmarks.
The road continues south to Petra for overnight — arriving in Wadi Musa with the evening free to rest, explore local restaurants, and prepare for a full morning inside one of the world’s great ancient cities.

The morning belongs to Petra. Enter through the Siq — the narrow, winding sandstone canyon that builds in drama for over a kilometre before delivering one of the great reveals in travel: the Treasury (Al-Khazneh), its 40-metre rose-red carved facade emerging from the rock as if the mountain opened specifically for this moment. Beyond the Treasury, the ancient city spreads across a wide valley: the Street of Facades, the Royal Tombs carved high into the eastern cliff face, the colonnaded street, the Nabataean theatre, the Great Temple, and the climb to the Monastery (Ad-Deir) for those with the energy and the appetite for the finest panoramic views in Petra. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, Petra is the kind of place that reframes your sense of what human civilisation is capable of.
In the afternoon, the road continues south to Wadi Rum — Jordan’s great protected desert, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of vast red sand plains, towering sandstone and granite massifs, narrow slot canyons, and ancient Thamudic and Nabataean rock inscriptions. Arriving as the desert light softens and the shadows lengthen across the dunes, you’ll settle into your Bedouin camp for a traditional dinner under a sky so clear and so full of stars it becomes its own kind of landmark. Overnight in Wadi Rum.

Morning in Wadi Rum is one of the defining experiences of this itinerary. The Valley of the Moon earns its name in the early hours — the scale of the landscape becomes fully apparent in the quiet of the morning, and the light on the red sandstone cliffs is unlike anything else in Jordan. Take the time to absorb it before departing south to Aqaba.
Jordan’s only coastal city sits at the northern tip of the Red Sea, flanked by Saudi Arabia to the east and Israel and Egypt across the water. Aqaba is warm, relaxed, and genuinely beautiful — a city where the pace of life slows to match the movement of the sea. The afternoon is yours to enjoy: walk the corniche, explore the old fort and downtown markets, take a glass-bottom boat ride over the coral reefs, or simply find a spot by the water and let the Red Sea do its work. Overnight in Aqaba.

After breakfast, the road heads north from Aqaba through the dramatic landscapes of the Wadi Araba — the rift valley that connects the Red Sea to the Dead Sea — rising through desert terrain before the Dead Sea itself comes into view, its flat, silver-blue surface sitting impossibly still at the bottom of the world.
At 430 metres below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth and one of its most extraordinary natural phenomena. Float effortlessly in water so dense with salt and minerals that the concept of sinking simply doesn’t apply. Apply the famous shoreline mud — rich in magnesium, calcium, and potassium — and unwind at your resort as the hills of the West Bank glow across the water in the late afternoon light. Overnight at the Dead Sea.

A final, unhurried morning by the water. One last float, a long breakfast by the pool, or a quiet walk along the shore before the road north to Queen Alia International Airport. Hajjat Tours will arrange your transfer and see you off — leaving you with nothing to carry but seven days of Jordan.