🏨 Private Full-Day Desert Castles and Dead Sea Tour from Amman Activity

Private Full-Day Desert Castles and Dead Sea Tour from Amman

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From $128.21

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 8 hours

Departs: Amman, Amman

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Visit medieval Islamic Eastern Desert Castles - UNESCO World Heritage Site of Qasr Amra, Qasr Al -Kharanah, first built by the Romans then completed by the Umayyad caliphs, and Qasr Al-Azraq, where Lawrence of Arabia had his headquarters during World War One. This full day private tour combines Islamic history, architecture, and spectacular landscapes. With a private new leisure vehicle and your own English-Speaking Driver, you can reach a series of remote desert castles that would be a daunting challenge; this personalized tour ensures you will have the flexibility to see each one at your own pace. Completing the historical part of this tour; off to a more laid-back time where you will descend to the lowest point on earth and the first natural spa in the world, the Dead Sea. Swim in the Dead Sea’s salty water, and explore Jordan’s eastern desert before returning to Amman.

What's Included

Additional Accompanied Licensed Guide, if option selected.

English Speaking Driver

Entrance fees to the Desert Castles; if option Jordan Pass not selected

Entrance to Amra Castle, Al Kharanah Castle, & Al – Azraq Castle; if option Jordan Pass not selected

Entrance to Dead Sea Spa Hotel for the use the beach, pool, and changing rooms; if option selected

Entrance to Holiday Inn Hotel for the use of the beach, pool, and changing rooms; if option selected

Entrance to the Dead Sea Private Area: beach, pool, and changing rooms; if option selected

Hotel pick-up and drop-off

On board WI-FI

Private Transfer by air-conditioned leisure new vehicle according number of participants

Showers

Towel

What's Not Included

All type of beverages

All type of gratuities (Tips to the Driver) – Recommended

All type of meals, unless option with lunch selected (Vegetarian meal by request)

Anything else not mentioned

Personal Expenses

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 5
CHILD: Age: 6 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 99

Additional Info

Clients are advised to bring hats, sun screen, and comfortable walking shoes.
Contact your local operator (phone number, emergency mobile number, or email address) a day before to reconfirm pick-up arrangements provided in your voucher.
Face masks required for guides in public areas
For Jordan Pass holders that purchased tour activity with entrance fees, please inform us to reimburse the entrance fees in destination.
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Most local tourist restaurants in Jordan do not serve alcohol, if you do not want a dry restaurant please contact us.
Regular temperature checks for staff
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Tour activity is provided in English. For other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German) by request.
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Clients are advised to bring hats, sun screen, and comfortable walking shoes.
Contact your local operator (phone number, emergency mobile number, or email address) a day before to reconfirm pick-up arrangements provided in your voucher.
Face masks required for guides in public areas
For Jordan Pass holders that purchased tour activity with entrance fees, please inform us to reimburse the entrance fees in destination.
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Most local tourist restaurants in Jordan do not serve alcohol, if you do not want a dry restaurant please contact us.
Regular temperature checks for staff
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Tour activity is provided in English. For other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German) by request.
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Amman

Start your day with your own leisure vehicle pick up and private English-Speaking Driver who doubles up as your guide. A visit of several Islamic medieval desert castles located East of Amman that offer a number of fortresses with fresco art and zodiac dome like: Qasr Amra from the Umayyads era, Qasr Al -Kharanah a Roman then Umayyed fortress built and completed in 710 A.D., and Qaser Al-Azraq where T. E. Lawrence of Arabia had his headquarters lived.

• Admission Ticket Free

Qsar Al-Azraq

Start this tour by visiting Al- Azrak Castle one of the historical castles in Jordan built of black basalt in the center of Al-Azrak Oasis just 100 KM east of Amman.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Quseir Amra

Off to visit the old Umayyad Amra Castle. This rare architectural masterpiece set in the heart of the desert, and its most notable for the frescoes on the inside walls, and the dome of the palace, which covers hot water bath ceiling look like a piece of the sky where the towers heavenly plotted show great skill. And tell countless stories of the life as it was during the 8th century.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

At last stop is to visit Al -Kharanah Castle, which is one of the best-preserved Umayyad monuments. This castle was built in a square shape for defense prepossess. It is also possible that some of these structures, like Quseir Amra, and Al -Kharanah served as resting places for high government officials on their way to Hejaz.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Dead Sea Region

Continue to the Dead Sea and the Desert of Moab, the lowest point on earth 400 meters under sea level. The Dead Sea is one of the most incredible places in the world. It is known for the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra, which was turned into salt. The Dead Sea speaks for itself; there is no living fish! It is by far one of Jordan’s most impressive and spectacular places to visit. Its calm shining water glowing from its scorching sun is known for the concentration of salt and minerals, which makes it a therapeutic as well as a unique swimming experience not to be missed! After exploring, relax on your ride back to Amman where your experience finishes with a hotel drop-off.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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