Two dream weeks, for eternity. This is what this tour of Egypt and Jordan in 15 daysis like, which includes the major destinations in each country so you don’t have to leave anything out of the program. If you have enough time and want to thoroughly explore two unique destinations, take a look at this tour, starting in Cairo and ending in Amman.
The first half of this trip through Egypt and Jordan takes place in the land of the ancient pharaohs. And therefore, some of its main attractions are related to that civilization. Of course, the Pyramids of Giza will be there, but also fascinating places such as the Valley of the Kings, the temples of Karnak, Abu Simbel… and much more.
But Egypt is not just Ancient Egypt, far from it. Therefore, we will enjoy Cairo, a vibrant city where traditional markets and the most imposing mosques are mixed, as well as primitive churches. And as a perfect counterpoint to this, the program includes a relaxing and suggestive cruise on the Nile, from Aswan to Luxor.
Jordan is a relatively small country, but full of tourist attractions. And in the second part of this trip you will discover it. Like other combined tours with this country, Petra and Wadi Rum are presented as the most important attractions: a city carved into the rock and a desert of unparalleled lunar beauty. And to get to them, the ancestral King’s Highway, seasoned with biblical places.
But the fact that it is a long tour of Egypt and Jordan, of 15 days duration, makes it possible to include other places that are sometimes left out of the program but are worth knowing. In particular, Amman and the area located to the north (Jerash, Ajloun) and the Dead Sea, which is one of the most unique bodies of water on the planet.
This 15-day Egypt and Jordan for 15 days and 14 nights is one of the star proposals of our catalog, and probably the most complete of all the combinations we offer. It starts in Cairo and ends in Amman, and in between three flights are deployed to speed up the program: Cairo – Aswan, Luxor – Cairo and Cairo – Amman. This is an outline of each day:
This 15-day Egypt and Jordan for 15 days has a very intense program. For this reason, the first day was dedicated to getting to this first country on the right foot, completing some formalities and managing the necessary information for the two weeks ahead. Therefore, our staff will be waiting for you at the terminal to make the necessary border formalities and start the private transfer to the hotel.
Upon arrival, you will check-in and receive an informative briefing about the circuit and the countries to be visited. It is therefore a good time to ask questions about the travel package or about practical issues in both countries. After that, there may be some free time left for a first exploration of the city, before returning to rest in the rooms.
Already rested from the trip, we start the sightseeing of this great tour around Egypt and Jordan for 15 days. And they do it in style: after breakfast at the hotel, we will transfer you to the site of the necropolis of Giza, where the majestic Pyramids stand. The pharaohs Cheops, Kefren and Mycerinus, of the IV dynasty, left us this legacy 4,500 years ago, along with the Great Sphinx and other spaces full of symbolism.
Visiting the famous Pyramids will be a real immersion in the Egypt of the Old Empire. But to have a broader knowledge and a better interpretation of the achievements and legacy of that entire civilization, we will also visit the Great Egyptian Museum at Giza, located next to the necropolis. This spectacular site, designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, is the largest archaeological museum in the world and fascinates not only for the majesty of its architecture, but also for the moving nature of each piece exhibited (almost 20,000 in total). The treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb are one of the great attractions, but the tour will reveal many other overwhelming surprises.
We will visit all this mainly in the morning. Lunch in a local restaurant will give us energy for the rest of the day, with plans to return to Cairo in the afternoon. At night, the night’s rest will be in the same hotel as the day before.
The capital of Egypt, Cairo, will be the protagonist of the third day, as we will visit its most emblematic places after breakfast at the hotel. The first stop will be the Saladin Citadel, named in honor of its promoter: the Ayyubid leader of the 12th century. It was successively expanded by other dynasties and governors, such as the Mamluks or the Ottomans. But the icing on the cake of this great military enclosure came in the 19th century, at the hands of Mehmet Ali: the Mosque of Alabaster, which we will visit (open to Muslims and non-Muslims) to admire the marble tomb of this vali, the prayer room, the courtyard of columns and the Clock Tower.
But the historic center of Cairo has much more to offer the visitor, and we will focus on two neighborhoods. The first is Islamic Cairo, declared a World Heritage Site (including the aforementioned Citadel) for corners as unique as the Khan el-Khalili bazaar. This is the best reflection of the era of splendor that this city experienced in periods as different as the Middle Ages or the 19th century, the latter under Ottoman domination but open to the world due to the incipient Egyptological fever.
The second neighborhood to discover is the Coptic Quarter, named for its special relevance in the early days of Christianity. Churches such as that of San Jorge demonstrate this, but the still living legacy of this religion can also be seen in other temples of enormous symbolism such as the Church of the Cave.
It will be an intense day, as such a capital city deserves, which also has quality restaurants. Lunch, included in the program, will be taken in one of them. At the end of the day, you will return to the hotel for a night’s rest.
On this fourth day of the tour, we move from Lower to Upper Egypt, that is, we will travel to the south of the country. For this, our agency’s driver will pick you up after breakfast to transfer you to Cairo Airport. From there, the flight will take off to Aswan, where another representative of our agency will meet you at the airport.
Once in Aswan, our driver will take you directly to the Temple of Isis in Philae, one of the most beautiful and unknown temples in the country. This construction, dating from the 4th century B.C. and renovated in later centuries, is considered the last great work of that civilization. Now, after having been moved to the current island, it looks radiant, with the pride of having the title of World Heritage Site.
After admiring its beauty, it will be time to check in at the accommodation that will be your home for three nights: the Nile cruise boat. For the time being, it will be a first contact, without starting the navigation but enjoying lunch on board.
The afternoon is free, ideal for a leisurely tour of Aswan before returning to the ship for dinner and rest in the cabin, while the ship remains moored in port.
In the 15 days of this circuit through Egypt and JordanThe fifth will be the earliest start: we will get up early to arrive at a good time to the temples of Abu Simbel. In fact, breakfast will not be taken on board the ship, but in a Breakfast Box during the road trip.
But the effort will be worth it: these constructions are the symbol of the splendor of Pharaoh Ramses II and his wife Nefertari. They were erected here after a pharaonic move in the 60s of the last century, when the waters of Lake Nasser threatened to flood everything after the construction of the Aswan Dam. Today they are a World Heritage Site and one of the great attractions of the country.
After visiting Abu Simbel, we will also return by road to Aswan to get back on board the ship to start sailing and have lunch on board. This cruise is one of the favorite experiences among visitors to Egypt, due to the beauty of the surroundings and the majesty of the temples to be visited along the shore. The first, that of Kom Ombo from the Ptolemaic period, dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, who is also the protagonist in the attached museum.
After visiting both sites, we will continue the river crossing along the Nile until we reach Edfu. In the port of that city, the ship will be moored to enjoy dinner and a good night’s rest on board.
On the sixth day of this circuit you will wake up in the port of Edfu and, on board the ship, you will have breakfast. With no time to lose, we will go to the spectacular temple of this same city, one of the most grandiose of all Ancient Egypt. It is dedicated to the god Horus and, therefore, there are numerous references to the animal with which it is associated, the falcon, protector of hunting and the pharaohs.
With the images of the great hypostyle hall, its gigantic pylons and other areas of the enclosure still in our minds, we will return to the ship to face the last leg of the navigation to Luxor. We will arrive there in the central hours of the day, having lunch on board. But upon arrival, we will not leave the ship, but we will go out to discover the eastern shore of this city, formerly called Thebes.
The temples of Karnak, the temple of Luxor, the Avenue of the Sphinxes… The list of places of interest in this sector is enormous, especially for lovers of Ancient Egypt. And in the final stretch of the day, we will return to the cruise ship to have dinner and enjoy the last night’s rest in the cabin.
The third breakfast on board is the last one you will have on the ship, after which you will check-out. But in this case, the transfer will not be direct to Luxor Airport, but before that, an intense program of visits to the western shore awaits us.
In this sector of the city is where the most important necropolis of ancient Thebes, which was the capital of the country during the Middle and New Empires, were located. Therefore, a visit to the Valley of the Kings, the great necropolis of the area, especially since the XVIIIth Dynasty, is a must. We will choose three tombs from among those open that day, and admire the wealth with which the pharaohs intended to travel to the Beyond.
The Colossi of Memnon and, above all, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari will complete a most interesting morning. After that, it will be time for the transfer to Luxor Airport and, from there, the flight to the capital, where you will be met by the staff of our agency to take you to the central hotel where you will spend the night.
We arrived at the equator of this trip through Egypt and Jordan of 15 days, which is also a milestone in the tour because we leave the first country to fly to the second. After the corresponding breakfast at the hotel in Cairo, our staff will take you in a private transfer to the airport of the capital to take the plane that will take you directly to Amman.
There, at Queen Alia Amman Airport, another representative of our agency will receive you and help you buy the visa and carry out the procedures that may be necessary. And immediately afterwards, we will make a new private transfer to the hotel in Amman. If the schedule allows, you will have dinner at the hotel and then rest in the rooms. The flight schedules will determine how much free time may remain in Cairo before the flight, or in Amman upon arrival.
The ninth day of the tour is, in turn, the first route through Jordan. It will be after having breakfast at the hotel and will take us through the area located north of the capital. But first we will not miss the opportunity to discover this interesting city, with very old monuments and vestiges, some of them from Roman times, such as its Theater, as well as others before and after, such as its Citadel.
After this panoramic visit of Amman, we will travel by road to one of the most surprising destinations of this tour of Egypt and Jordan of 15 days: Jerash. It is an ancient Roman city that is preserved in very good condition, with constructions that show us its splendor: the Arch of Hadrian, the Hippodrome, the Oval Plaza… and much more, which will delight not only lovers of history but all visitors in general.
The next and last stop of the day will be Ajloun, and more specifically its castle, located on top of a hill from where you can see the green landscape of Mediterranean character that dominates this region. The construction itself dates from medieval times and is a good example of that period of wars between crusaders and Arabs, and even between Mamluks and Mongols.
Once these visits are finished, we will return to Amman to have dinner at the hotel and rest in the rooms.
On this tenth day, our tour heads south to reach, at the end of the day, the vicinity of Petra. But this journey is not a mere formality to reach said destination, but a roadtrip of the most interesting for the stops we will make along the way, popularly known as Carretera del Rey.
After having breakfast at the hotel, we will start the route and, shortly after, we will stop in Madaba to admire the mosaic map of the Holy Land, dated in the 6th century and famous for being the first representation of this biblical territory. It is located inside the church of San Jorge.
The next stop takes us to a place mentioned in the Holy Scriptures: Mount Nebo, from where Moses saw the Promised Land. And we will do as the prophet did: put our eyes towards the horizon from the viewpoint, arranged for the purpose. In addition, the site consists of a church and other commemorative monuments.
Then, we will continue our route, now traveling many more kilometers, as the next stop is the castle of Shobak, built by the crusaders in the 12th century with the name of Mont Real. We will only see its exterior, but it will help us understand its strategic importance.
And finally, a little further on, we will arrive at Wadi Musa, the small town where the hotel for tonight is located. In addition, you will have dinner there before resting, already with your mind set on the expected visit the next day.
On this tour of Egypt and Jordan, of the 15 days of the program, this eleventh will be the most anticipated by many, since we dedicate it entirely to the visit of Petra, capital of the ancient Nabataean empire and nicknamed the ‘Pink City’. But the distinction that best speaks of its value is that of World Heritage Site by Unesco, as well as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World (like the Pyramids of Giza, by the way).
After having breakfast at the hotel in Wadi Musa and going to the Visitor Center, the visit will take us to the most representative places of this extraordinary city carved into the rock: the Tomb of the Obelisks, the Siq, the Street of Facades, the Nabataean Theater, the Roman city with its Columned Street, the Al Deir Monastery… and of course, the Treasury, its great symbol and icon.
All this, framed between rocky walls and accompanied by the local guide who will explain all the necessary details to understand and learn during the tour. And at the conclusion of this day, we will return to the hotel in Wadi Musa to have dinner and rest during the night.
On this twelfth day, the tour takes us to the southernmost point that our route will reach in Jordan: Wadi Rum. But before that and after having breakfast at the hotel in Wadi Musa, another interesting and surprising visit is planned: Little Petra.
It receives that name because, unequivocally, it resembles Petra and, in fact, it could have been inspired by it to shape its space: it is an enclave carved into the rock, of smaller dimensions and that must have provided logistical or other services to the Nabataean capital. In addition, it was inhabited until relatively recently by Bedouin tribes.
Those Nabataean and Bedouin tribes also frequented the Wadi Rum desert from time immemorial, to which we will head at this time. It is a natural reserve declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco due to its environmental value and its unique beauty. It is no coincidence that it fascinated Lawrence of Arabia, in whose honor different spaces have been named, such as the mountain of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
We, to make the most of the time and enjoy the experience, will travel through its most symbolic corners aboard a 4×4 SUV. And at the end of the day, we will gather at the Bedouin camp located in this same natural reserve, where we will delight in the lights of the sunset and the starry sky of this environment, before sleeping in a traditional tent with all the comforts.
Waking up among the lights of changing tones of the desert is always a unique experience. And in Wadi Rum it will be possible on this thirteenth day, after sleeping in the Bedouin tent. Breakfast will also be served in the camp, which you will have in an atmosphere of unique tranquility.
After that, we will begin the way back to Amman. It will be a long journey, but we will do it with the essential stops to be able to arrive not too late to the capital and thus enjoy free time in the city. Without a doubt, an ideal time for last-minute shopping or other plans that may remain pending. And at night, as usual, you will enjoy dinner at the hotel and then rest in the rooms.
This 15-day Egypt and Jordan for 15 days reaches its penultimate day, but still has a unique proposal reserved for us: to travel to the lowest point on the planet, the Dead Sea, located about 400 meters below sea level. For this, we will travel by road from the hotel in Amman, after having breakfast.
The Dead Sea is one of the most important spa destinations in the world thanks to its waters with a very high level of salt and other minerals. Therefore, on this day you will have the opportunity to enjoy a bath in it, where the muds so appreciated by the cosmetic industry are also concentrated.
The afternoon will be free, either in the quality facilities of the resort or to visit other corners of this place of high natural value. Dinner is included in the hotel package, so the day is conceived as a quiet day of relaxation and well-being.
On this tour of Egypt and Jordan, the 15th day is the last, with a clear program to get to Queen Alia Amman Airport without complications. After having breakfast at the hotel in the Dead Sea, our driver will take you in a private transfer to the terminal and our staff will help you with the last operations before boarding. It will be time to say goodbye and thank you for your trust in our services, with the hope that we have fulfilled all the expectations of such a special trip.
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