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Jordan 8 Day Book & Cook Guided Tour
Amman Governorate, Jordan
8 DAYS
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8 DAYS
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Overview
Are you passionate about cooking? Would you like to learn all about Jordan’s traditional meals and explore the highlights of Jordan as well? Then this holiday is for you!
Highlights
- Amman
- Jerash
- Madaba
- Mt. Nebo
- Ghor Al Mazra’a/ Ajlun
- Petra
- Wadi Rum
- Dead Sea
What's Included
Inclusions
- Transfers
- All meals as noted in the program in the program
- English-speaking guide throughout the tour
- Accommodation at 4* hotels in Amman, 3* Petra and 4* the Dead Sea including breakfast
- Entry tickets
- Afternoon visit to the vegetable market in Amman with the chef of Beit Sitti
- Beit Sitti cooking course
- Bandoora day at Ghor Al Mazra’a during winter and spring including picking the tomatoes and preparing galaya for lunch
- A day at Jdeit in Ajlun during summer and autumn including picking seasonal fruits and preparing a traditional dish
- Learning how to make Taboun bread and Khobbez Fattah with locals
- Visit the local butcher to buy the ingredients needed for Mansaf and learning how to cook mansaf on an open fire in Little Petra
- Half day jeep tour inside Wadi Rum, including learning how to prepare a BBQ lunch
- Making Zarb dinner together with local Bedouins at the camp in Wadi Rum
Itinerary
1
Arrival Queen Alia Airport - Amman
<p>Arrival at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, our airport representative is waiting for you and will assist you with the visa procedures.</p> <p>The airport rep will walk with your through customs and to the luggage hall and will bring you to the driver at the arrival hall. Our driver waits for you also in the arrival hall with a name sign.</p> <p>Transfer to the 3*Larsa hotel l in Amman for overnight, including bed and breakfast.</p>
2
Amman - Roman Theatre - The Citadel - Jerash - Amman
<p>After breakfast today you will make a city tour in Amman with visiting the Citadel and the Roman Theater. Then drive toward one of the best preserved old Roman provincial city, Jerash. After your tour of Jerash, you will have lunch at the Artemis Restaurant in Jerash city, before transfer back to Amman.</p> <p>In the afternoon you will meet the chef of Beit Sitti and visit the vegetable market in the old downtown of Amman together. A public place that has been visited for many decades. On this trip, you will get to experience the hustle and bustle of the city, interact with interesting locals and get a glimpse of the life of Jordanians. Tonight you will learn how to cook Tabbouleh, Humus, Maqloubeh and a desert. Enjoy your dinner!</p> <p>Overnight in the 3*Larsa Hotel in Amman including bed and breakfast</p>
3
2 Options depending on the season
<p><strong>(In winter & Spring) Madaba - Mt. Nebo - Ghur Al Mazra’a - Petra </strong></p> <p>Approximate at 7.30 am you will leave your hotel in Amman. Drive to Madaba to visit the St. George Church, with its famous mosaic map.</p> <p>Continue to Mt. Nebo, from where Moses viewed the Promised Land. Continue to Ghor al Mazra’a to participate in Bandoora day. Bandoora is the Arabic word for Tomato. Help the locals with harvesting the tomatoes from the farms. After enjoying lunch with the locals. Together you will prepare galayah. A local dish with tomatoes being one of the main ingredients.</p> <p>Time permitting you also have a chance to learn how to make Kohol (from olive oil) or learn the traditional way of wool spinning, basket weaving etc. Transfer to Petra for dinner and overnight at 3*Petra Palace Hotel including bed and breakfast. Tonight you get an introduction of what to expect of the cooking the coming days in Petra!</p> <p><strong>(In Summer and Autumn) Amman - Ajlune - Jdeit - Petra</strong></p> <p>Approximate at 7.30 am you will leave your hotel in Amman to Ajlune to visit Ajlune castle and have a view there.</p> <p>Then transfer to Jdeit where you help today harvest fruits with local people, and then together you will prepare a traditional dish. After lunch, you will have time to hunt for wild herbs and pines and learn how to roast and cook them. And you will have some traditional activities there and a walking tour at the village with locals there.</p> <p>Transfer to Petra for dinner and overnight at 3*Petra Palace Hotel. Tonight you get an introduction of what to expect of the cooking the coming days in Petra!</p>
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