This 4 day Jordan tour is the shortest way to see the country’s three big names properly: Petra, the Roman city of Jerash and the Dead Sea. You land in Amman, spend a full day in Petra with a licensed guide, cross Jordan’s Roman and biblical north on day three, and finish floating in the Dead Sea before your flight home. It is a private tour, so the car, driver and guides are yours alone, and the pace is set by you.
Four days is also the sweet spot for Jordan’s paperwork. Three consecutive nights in the country is the minimum for the Jordan Pass, which bundles your visa with entry to Petra and Jerash and saves the 40 JOD visa fee on arrival. Our tour already includes every entrance fee, so ask us before you buy the pass and we will tell you which option costs less for your nationality.
What you get in four days: two nights in Amman and one night on the Dead Sea shore, all on a bed-and-breakfast basis; air-conditioned private transfers throughout; a licensed English-speaking guide at every site; and a representative who meets you inside the arrivals terminal at Queen Alia International Airport and takes care of the formalities.
What you do not get: Wadi Rum. A desert night does not fit honestly into four days alongside Petra, Jerash and the Dead Sea, so we have left it out rather than rush it. If the red desert is on your list, look at our 6 day Jordan tour package, which adds Wadi Rum and Aqaba, or the 5 day Jordan tour package for one extra day at a gentler pace.
Your Egypt Best Vacations representative meets you inside the arrivals terminal at Queen Alia International Airport, helps with the visa and passport formalities, and drives you to your hotel in Amman (about 35 minutes). The rest of the day is yours. If you arrive early, the Citadel and the Roman Theatre in downtown Amman are an easy first evening, and Rainbow Street is a good place for a first Jordanian dinner. Overnight in Amman.
Meals: none
An early start for the drive south along the Desert Highway to Petra (about 3 hours). Your licensed guide walks you in through the Siq, the 1.2-kilometre gorge that opens without warning onto the Treasury, the rock-cut facade the Nabataeans carved around the 1st century AD. From there the city opens up: the Street of Facades, the Theatre, the Royal Tombs cut into the cliff face, and the colonnaded street of the Roman-era town. With time and energy, the 800-step climb to the Monastery is the best reward in Petra. Late afternoon drive back to Amman. Overnight in Amman.
Meals: breakfast
North first, about an hour, to Jerash, the Roman Gerasa. You enter under Hadrian’s Arch, built for the emperor’s visit in AD 129, and walk the Oval Plaza, the Cardo with its original paving and column rows, the Temple of Artemis and the South Theatre, where the acoustics still work. Then south past Amman to Madaba to see the 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land on the floor of St George’s Church, the oldest surviving map of the region. A short drive on to Mount Nebo, where tradition places Moses’ view of the Promised Land, and on a clear day you can see the Dead Sea, Jericho and the hills of Jerusalem. Descend to the Dead Sea for the night. Overnight at the Dead Sea.
Meals: breakfast
A morning to yourself at the lowest point on Earth, 430 metres below sea level. The water is about ten times saltier than the ocean, so you float without trying, and the mineral mud on the shore is the spa treatment the resorts charge for. When you are ready, your driver takes you to Queen Alia International Airport (about an hour) for your flight home, and your 4 day Jordan tour ends.
Meals: breakfast
| Travel season | Triple | Twin | Single |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May – 30 Sep | $670 | $710 | $1,205 |
| 1 Oct – 19 Dec | $710 | $770 | $1,310 |
| 20 Dec – 4 Jan | $945 | $1,025 | $1,745 |
| 5 Jan – 25 Mar | $710 | $770 | $1,310 |
| 26 Mar – 10 Apr | $830 | $900 | $1,530 |
| 11 Apr – 30 Apr | $710 | $770 | $1,310 |
4 Star Hotels in Jordan: Kaya Hotel. Seas Hotel. Corp Amman Hotel. Rival Amman Hotel and more of the similar category.
Short on time? The ultimate 3 day Jordan itinerary keeps Petra and the Dead Sea and drops Jerash. Want the desert? The 6 day Jordan tour package adds Wadi Rum and Aqaba, and the 7 day Jordan tour from Aqaba to Amman covers the whole country south to north. Combining Jordan with the pyramids and the Nile is our speciality: see all our Egypt and Jordan tours. Planning Petra in depth? Read our Petra, Jordan guide first.
