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SYRIA / LEBANON / JORDAN TOUR 15 DAYS / 14 NIGHTS
Weekly
Guaranteed departure, every Saturdays, with English-speaking guide
Without minimum
number of participants
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ARRIVE DAMASCUS AIRPORT
Meet at the gate, by our friendly Airport
staff who shall provide full
assistance through immigration & custom.
Transfer to hotel in
Damascus for dinner & overnight.
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DAMASCUS
/ SEYDNAYA/ MALOULA/ KRACK DES CHEVALIERS /
ALEPPO Breakfast.
Drive to Seydnaya to visit the Blessed Virgin’s Convent
and then to
Ma'lula, the honeycomb village. Built on a very capricious rocky
slope.
Continue to Krak des Chevaliers, to visit the famous Crusader
Fortress,
built in 1110. Proceed to Aleppo for dinner and overnight.
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ALEPPO / ST. SIMEON / ALEPPO
Breakfast,
full day sightseeing of Aleppo
including the Arabian citadel, Old souks,
The Great Mosque, Archeological
museum, old barriers and houses from the
17th century. Drive to visit the
imposing cathedral of St.
Simeon, the Stylite which was the grandest of all
5th century
Christian monuments. Dinner and overnight in Aleppo.
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ALEPPO
/ HAMA / PALMYRA
Breakfast.
Drive to Hama, one of the oldest
city in Syria, famous for its’ wooden
waterwheels. Proceed to Palmyra,
Syria’s prime attraction and one of
the world’s greatest historical sites
where the magnificent remains:
the Temple of Bel, the Arch of Triumph,
Zenobia Bath and more tell
stories of the reign of Queen Zenobia. Dinner
and overnight in Palmyra.
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PALMYRA / BORDER / BYBLOS /
TRIPOLI / BEIRUT Breakfast.
Transfer
from Palmyra to Syrian / Lebanese Border. Drive to visit
Byblos, the city of
the most ancient port in the world, that gathers
over 6000 years of history
and culture. Visit the old Souks, Old
ramparts, citadel, St. John Church and
Roman amphitheater. Proceed to
Tripoli to visit the castle of Raymond de
Saint Gilles, the Grand Mosque
of Mameluks. Dinner & overnight in Beirut.
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BEIRUT / ZAHLE / BAALBECK/
DAMASCUS After
breakfast, drive through
the Mount Lebanon via the Beka’a valley to
discover Baalbeck, the small
town outstanding for its acropolis
considered among the most important
Roman ruins ever built. Continue via
Zahle to Lebanese / Syrian border.
Dinner & overnight at the hotel
in Damascus.
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DAMASCUS
CITY þTOUR
Breakfast.
Sightseeing tour of Damascus, the
oldest
capital and continually inhabited city in the world. Visit the Omayyad
Mosque, Saladin's Tomb, the Azem Palace, St. Annania’s Church,
Straight
Street, St. Paul's Window and the old covered bazaar. P.M visit
of the
National museum of Damascus. Dinner and overnight in Damascus.
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DAMASCUS
/ CHAHBA / BOSRA / AMMAN
Breakfast. Drive to Chaba and
Bosra. Bosra was a major metropolis of the
Roman Empire and a
prosperous crossroads for trade. Its’ importance,
nowadays, lies in housing
the still preserved Roman Theater, which hosts
Arab and International
performers during the Bosra Art Festival.
Continue to Amman via the Syrian
– Jordanian border. Dinner and
overnight in Amman.
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AMMAN
/ SALT / JORDAN VALLEY / PELLA / UM QEIS / IRBID / AMMAN
Breakfast. Drive to Jordan Valley resonant with historic and religious
heritage via Salt, the former capital of Jordan. Visit Pella, rich with
ruins from
Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times. Continue to Um Qeis,
the ancient
Greco-Roman City of Gadara, with its panoramic view
overlooking the lake of
Tiberias, the Jordan Valley and Golan Heights.
Drive back to Amman via
Irbid for dinner and overnight.
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AMMAN
/ DESERT CASTLES / DEAD SEA / AMMAN
Breakfast. Full day
tour to the Desert Castles, built by the Omayyad
Caliphs of Damascus in
the 8th century A.D. as hunting
lodges. Wildly varied in architectural style:
Qasr Al-Kharraneh, Qasr
Amra and Qasr Al-Azraq. Continue to the Dead
Sea – the lowest spot on
earth. Time for bathing and relaxing. Dinner and
overnight – Amman.
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CITY
TOUR OF AMMAN / JERASH / AMMAN Breakfast. Full day tour
through Amman, the ancient and modern capital
of Jordan, originally built on
seven hills and from the top of the
citadel, one of the highest hills, you can
have a splendid view of the
old city. Visit the Citadel, Roman Theater,
Archeological, Folklore
Museums, and King Abdullah Mosque. Drive north of
Amman to visit Jerash,
the most beautiful and preserved Roman city in
existence. Dinner and
overnight-Amman.
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AMMAN / MADABA / MOUNT
NEBO / KINGS’ HIGHWAY / KERAK /
PETRA
Breakfast, full day visit through King’s Highway, the ancient Silk
Road; stop in Madaba, home of the most famous Byzantine Mosaics and
most
of all the 6th century map of the holy places in the biblical
world.
Continue to Mount Nebo, with its spectacular view of the Holy
Land. Then to
Kerak to visit the Crusader Castle from the 12th
century. Proceed to Petra
for dinner and overnight.
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PETRA
Breakfast. Full day sightseeing of the unique “rose-red” city of
Petra,
half as old as time, built by the Arab Nabateans who hewed their
monumental tombs, palaces, temples and treasury from the desert rock’s
sandstone in its’ natural hues of rose and gold. Dinner and overnight
in
Petra.
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PETRA
/ WADI RUM / AQABA / WADI ARABA / AMMAN Breakfast. Drive
to Wadi Rum the valley of the moon, with a visit by
Bedouin Jeeps for 2
hours. Continue to Aqaba for break at the Red Sea.
P.M. drive via Wadi
Araba and Dead Sea Coast to Amman for dinner and
overnight.
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TRANSFER
TO AMMAN AIRPORT FOR DEPARTURE
Breakfast. Transfer
to Amman Airport including our assistance during
departure formalities.
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