One Day Tour To Petra From Amman

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240 Kilometers south of Amman using Desert highway and could be reached through Kin’s Highway (Visiting Madaba, Nebo, Kerak, and Shobak en route). • Was built more than 2000 years ago by the Arabic Nomads NABATEANS, all carved in mountains. • Considered by the UNISCO as one of the international archeological heritage. • Petra was built as a fortress city that had a domain on the trade routes crossing the area including the famous SILK ROAD. • The archeological city of Petra is reachable only by one narrow entrance through high natural passage crack in rocky mountain, this passage is called “ AL SIQ” in Arabic. • An attached village called Wadi Moussa (Moses Valley), contains hotels and is the place to start the journey from. • 10 kilometers away from Petra, visitors can find the excavations of Stone Age villages: BEIDA & BASTA, which are 8000 years old.

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8h

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120032P15