DAY 1 - DAMASCUS - Daily - Year Round
Our staff greets you at Damascus International Airport and escorts you to your hotel. You can begin your explorations of this "Arabian Nights" city just after you arrive. Transfers are always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur.Add Istanbul . Do you prefer to start in Amman ? please click here.

DAY 2 - DAMASCUS (BL)
Breakfast is included at the hotel daily. Lunch is included at a local restaurant.
Today we explore the Syrian capital, visiting the National Museum, with treasures dating from the 1400s BC; the bustling Old Bazaar, the Eastern Gate (Bab ash-Sharqi) in the Roman city walls; the Street Called Straight (Via Recta); the house of Anania; and the chapel with a window from which disciples lowered St. Paul so he could escape those who sought to kill him (Acts 9:24-25). Touring is always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur. and a private guide .

DAY 3 - PALMYRA (BL)
Breakfast is included at the hotel daily. Lunch is included at a local restaurant. Dinner is included at the hotel . We drive to ancient Palmyra (Tadmor), in a desert oasis on the trade route between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia, to visit its museum, the temples of Bel, Baal Shamin and Nebo, the Roman baths, the Tetrapylon, Diocletian's camp, and the Valley of the Tombs, before settling in at our Palmyra hotel. Touring is always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur. and a private guide .

DAY 4 - KRAK DES CHEVALIERS, HAMA & ALEPPO (BL)
Breakfast is included at the hotel daily. Lunch is included at a local restaurant. Dinner is included at the hotel . Get your camera ready, for today we see the famously photogenic Krak des Chevaliers, the most spectacular 12th-century Crusaders' castle of all. From this marvel of military architecture we head north to Hama, one of Syria's prettiest towns, to see its great norias (water wheels), some up to 65 feet in diameter, scooping water from the fabled Orontes River. We continue to Aleppo for the night. Touring is always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur. and a private guide .

DAY 5 - ALEPPO - SERGELLA, APAMEA, MAALULA & DAMASCUS - (BL)
Breakfast is included at the hotel daily. Lunch is included at a local restaurant.
We head south to Sergella, one of the 500 Dead Cities, fabled ghost towns built between the 4th and 7th centuries which were abandoned mysteriously around the 9th century. Our next stop is Apamea (Qala'at al-Mudiq), the Hellenistic "city of a thousand columns" built by Seleucus I Nicator in the 2nd century BC and named in honor of his wife. We continue to Maalula, where villagers still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus, for a visit to the chapel of St. Sergius, before returning to Damascus for the night. Touring on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur. and a private guide .

DAY 6 - Fly to Amman/ Petra (BL)
Breakfast at the hotel. Lunch is included in Jordan .
Our staff escorts you to the airport for your flight to Amman , where our local rep. will meet you upon arrival and help with the complimentary visa is issued upon arrival for American, EU & Japanese passport holders. Passport must be valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival. Then on to PETRA :
We drive south along the King's Highway, an ancient caravan route, time permitting we maybe able to visit Madaba to visit the church containing the oldest known map of the Holy Land. Continuing to Mount Nebo, we enjoy the panoramic view of the Promised Land the way Moses saw it for the first time. Finally, we arrive to PETRA . Transfers are always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle and private chauffeur.

DAY 7 - PETRA - (B)
Breakfast at the hotel . Today the fabulous Nabatean City of Petra awaits us. Made famous in the Indiana Jones movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark," its ancient temples, tombs and striking Khazneh (Treasury) were hewn right from the pink and violet sandstone. We spend a full day here, and another night.
Touring on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur. and a private guide .

DAY 8 - PETRA - WADI RUM - Amman (BL)
Today and after breakfast , we proceed to Wadi Rum where we board a four-wheel-drive vehicles for an expedition thru Wadi Rum , the "Valley of the Moon" where T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") organized Arab resistance to Ottoman rule during World War I. After our visit We drive back north to Amman, lunch is included enroute, and your hotel . Transfers and tours are always on a private basis , with a private chauffeur and private air-conditioned vehicle

DAY 9 - AMMAN - Departure (B)
After breakfast , we return to Amman Airport or to the border with Israel / Palestine . assistance with luggage . Bon Voyage. Transfers and tours are always on a private basis , with a private chauffeur and a private air-conditioned

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