Region · Jordan · 3 tours
These tours visit cities in Jordan that outlived their builders. Petra was the city of the Nabataeans, herders who grew rich moving incense from southern Arabia to the Mediterranean and who settled a dry valley by storing the water of its winter floods.
Jerash was Gerasa, a self governing Greek city of the Decapolis whose own citizens paid for many of the buildings that still stand. Amman was Rabbath Ammon, capital of the Ammonites, and still carries the name; its tour runs from the Citadel hill down public stairs to the Roman Theatre and the streets where the capital of 1921 grew up.
Each tour takes about 100 to 165 minutes over 11 stops. Stop 1 of every tour is free to hear before you buy.
Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through Petra, from the tombs at Bab as Siq down the narrow gorge of the Siq to the carved front of the Treasury, and on through the Nabataean city to the temple of Qasr al Bint.
11 stops · 4 km (2.5 mi) · about 165 min
Jerash Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through ancient Gerasa, from the arch raised for Hadrian's visit through the South Gate and the Oval Plaza and up the colonnaded street to the churches, the temple of Artemis and the North Theatre.
11 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 150 min
Amman Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through Amman, from the Ammonite hill of the Citadel and its Roman and Umayyad ruins down to the Roman Theatre, the old Roman fountain, the town's great mosque and the street where the capital of 1921 grew up.
11 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 100 min