Your search for Jordan tours brings you to ElegantCruises.com. Our company provides exceptional cultural and expedition land and cruise programs that offer opportunities to explore Jordan and Egypt, travel along scenic European rivers and waterways, ply the exquisite Mediterranean Sea, wander among the warm, sunny Caribbean islands, amble along the tropical coastline of South America, or embark for the enigmatic, distant Antarctica continent. 

On our “Monasteries of the Lonely Desert” Jordan tours program you will travel the oldest continuously used road in the world, the King’s Highway. With visits to scores of archaeological sites and treasures from many historical periods, you will view some of the most spectacular natural scenery in the Middle East. During the Red Sea cruise portion of your Jordan tours adventure you will explore a number of Egypt’s amazing archaeological ruins. Informative, memorable, dazzling are all adjectives that are frequently used when describing the remarkable Jordan tours and cruise program offered by Elegant Cruises and Tours, Inc.
Please be aware that ElegantCruises.com does not include airfare in our Jordan Tours rates nor do we book airfare. However, we know the importance of obtaining reasonable international air rates in the overall convenience and ultimate enjoyment of your Jordan Tours vacation and have partnered with reputable travel agents who specialize in finding the best routes and airfares. If you would like help in air ticketing, please let us know when you make a reservation. We will provide several excellent recommendations.

Jordan Tours With A Different Twist
Unlike most Jordan Tours, ElegantCriuses.com Jordan tours strive to make the most of your travel experience by offering a land tour and cruise itinerary that encompasses some of the most stunning sites in both Jordan and Egypt.  Accompanied with knowledgeable guest-lecturers of Pharaonic, Nabataean, and early Christian art and architecture you will have an enriching and exciting adventure.  Elegant Cruises & Tours, Inc design these Jordan Tours programs so they commence or end either in Cairo, Egypt or Amman, Jordan, two intriguing ancient cities that offer striking contrasts of the old and new.

On our Jordan tours you will gaze not only upon the Nabataean capital city at Petra, the crossroads of the ancient world's spice and incense routes for 400 years, but also the fabulous monuments of the ancient land of the Pharaohs. In addition our Jordan Tours itinerary includes archaeological sites revealing the legacies of the Greeks, Romans who conquered these lands, the early Christians who dwelled in remote monasteries, as well as the plentitude of architecture and art accumulated from centuries of successive Islamic dynasties.

Jordan Tours: Along the King’s Highway
The Kings Highway is an ancient route winding through the various ecological zones of Jordan. Traveling southward from Amman it passes through lush open farmland plateaus, and forested highlands, to the fabulous scenery in the eastern desert at Wadi Rum, ending at the tropical gulf port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. Our Jordan Tours program includes several days in the capital of Jordan, Amman, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Middle East. This fascinating city with its profusion of white buildings is situated between the fertile Jordan Valley and the desert. Amidst the city’s modern buildings are remnants of many civilizations, Seleucid, Nabataean, Greco-Roman and Islamic. Our Jordan Tours takes you to the Roman ruins on Citadel Hill, an archeological site that towers above this vibrant city. A half-day trip to the Greco-Roman archaeological site of Jerash, Jordan's second most popular archaeological site after stunning Petra is also in store for you. Jerash, remarkably well preserved, is considered the best example in the Middle East of a Roman provincial city. 

As you proceed along the King’s Highway following our Jordan Tours itinerary, stops are made at such engaging sites as the magnificent 12th-century crusader castle of Kerak, which perches on a mountain overlooking the surrounding hills and valley. This impressive example of the military genius of the Crusaders is superbly situated on the King's Highway, where it could control all traffic from north and south. Another attraction on your Jordan Tours is the ancient site of Madaba known as the “City of Mosaics.” Madaba has a long history dating back further than 1300 B.C. During the 5th and 6th centuries, mosaics were lavished on churches as well as public and private buildings. However, Madaba was sacked by the Persians in 614, and was further destroyed by an earthquake in 747.  Today it appears to be a typical East Bank town. However, exquisite Byzantine mosaics were discovered in the 1880’s by a group of Christians from Kerak who had come to settle in the abandoned ancient city. Many of these mosaics have been excavated and are on display in the town's museum. You will be able to view the famed mosaics at St. George's Church and the Church of the Apostles. West of Madaba, a short ten minutes by our Jordan Tours motor coach is Mount Nebo with its Byzantine Church. It is believed that from this site Moses saw the Promised Land.

For many of our travelers the highlight of their Jordan Tours is the spectacular ancient Nabataean city of Petra. We enter this rose-red city deep within the deserts of Jordan through a narrow gorge on horseback. You will be able to explore Roman Theater, the Royal Tombs, the Courthouse, Roman Street and Triumphal Arch among other fascinating monuments.
Spectacular desert scenery awaits you on your Jordan Tours next stop, Wadi Rum, a protected area covering 720 square kilometers of dramatic desert wilderness, a vast, silent place that is timeless and starkly beautiful. Uniquely shaped massive mountains with towering cliffs of weathered stone rise vertically out of the pink desert sand.

The 13th century Red Sea town of Aqaba anchors the southern end of the King’s Highway. Aqaba, a warm, sunny resort fringed with palm trees and overlooking the crystal clear waters of the Gulf of Aqaba is a spot for water sports, and relaxation.

The Cruise Portion of Your Jordan Tours Adventure
If your Jordan Tours program began in Amman, Jordan you will now embark on the m/s Monet for the cruise portion of your Jordan Tours adventure. We encourage you to revel in the sun while enjoying visits to some of Egypt’s breathtaking historical treasures. In the evenings, after relishing one of the freshly prepared meals, which are served in a single sitting in the window-lined Nymphea Restaurant, you will have opportunities to greet new acquaintances, and enjoy refreshing cocktails along with light piano entertainment in the Giverny Lounge. Also in the evenings, our Egypt and Jordan tour guest lecturers offer insights into the next day’s activities.

A few highlights on the cruise portion of your Jordan Tours include Sharm El Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula. A stop of several days will allow you to relax in an extraordinary area surrounded by white sandy beaches, endless arid desert landscape, and the clear blue waters of the Red Sea. Close by is the Ras Mohammed National Park located on a slender, dramatically arid peninsula. This park offers a variety of stunning geological features both underwater and on land. In addition, the ElegantCruises.com itinerary takes you to the Monastery of the Seven Nuns located at the "Pearl of the Sinai" desert, the  oasis of Wadi Feiran with its luxuriant sprawl of palms. In this spectacular natural setting you will be able to view priceless works of art, including Greek and Russian icons, Western Arab mosaics, oil paintings, and the second largest collection of illuminated manuscripts housed within this great granite fortress monestary.

The Egypt portion of your Jordan tours would not be thorough without a visit to Luxor, that fabulous open-air museum of such grand proportions that has been drawing folks to its awe-inspiring monuments of ancient Pharaonic Egypt since the late dynasties of the Greeks and Romans. By spending two days in the area, you will be able to visit with your Elegant Cruises’ tour guides all the major great temples at Luxor including the magnificent Karnak Temple complex, the Valley of the Queens, which includes the tomb of Nefertiti and the Temple of Hatshepsut, the Valley of the Kings, where more than 65 tombs including Tutankhamen's have been excavated, and the Colossi of Memnon.

Before disembarking in the lovely resort town of Ein El Sokhna you will have a full-day journey to the Coptic Christian monasteries hidden within the Red Sea Mountains, of St. Anthony and St. Paul, the oldest inhabited monasteries in Egypt. These fortress style monasteries with their high outer walls contain exceptional wall paintings and handwritten manuscripts. Saying farewell to the Monet and its crew, you will be transported to Cairo where your Jordan Tours Adventure will end.

Our Jordan Tours Offers You Optional Pre or Post Land Extensions
Thoroughly exploring the city of Cairo and its surrounding areas could easily involve two weeks or more. The two days optional pre or post Jordan tours extension offered by ElegantCruises.com is certainly not enough time to see all the magnificent offerings completely, but our abridged visit gives an engrossing glimpse into what this beguiling city has to offer. The sheer intensity of Cairo leaves a memorable impression of a chaotic, noisy, colorful, foreign urban metropolis jammed with millions of Egyptian, Arab, and African nationalities. The ElegantCruises.com Jordan tours extension offers an English-speaking Egyptologist and guide who will take you on a full-day excursion with lunch to Sakkara, Memphis, the Sphinx, and the iconic Giza Pyramids. A second full-day excursion to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities and the Khan El-Khalili Bazaar, a colorful, famous souk will wrap up this mini-extension. Although this pre or post land extension is an overwhelming amount of Pharaonic antiquities to experience, ElegantCruises.com believes is more than well worth your time. Since it's impossible to see everything that Egypt and its surrounding areas have to offer in just one visit, many folks return again and again for additional adventures.

Our Specialty Is Culturally Focused Cruise and Tour Programs
Elegant Cruises & Tours Inc. continues to improve its adventurous vacation programs every year. After more than 20 years experience in creating culturally focused cruise and tour programs for the venturesome, intellectually curious American traveler, we believe that Jordan Tours program by Elegantcruises.com offers many exciting, fulfilling and unforgettable memories for every one of our fortitudinous passengers. We welcome you aboard for a stimulating Jordan Tours adventure from Elegantcruises.com.