Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Then, meet your guide in the hotel lobby and walk together to the Petra Visitors Center.

Begin your visit with an optional horse ride from the main gate of Petra to the entrance of the old city. Then walk on foot along to the Siq (entrance). The ancient city of Petra was built between 800 BC to AD 100 by Nabatean Arabs. In this era Petra was a fortress, carved out of the jagged rocks in an area, which was virtually inaccessible. In the first and second century, after the Romans invaded, the city reached the peak of its fame.

Petra covers an area of about 100 square kilometers (62 miles), where over 800 monuments can be found. When shipping slowly displaced caravan routes, the city's importance gradually declined and it fell into disuse, it was lost until 1812, when it was re-discovered by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burkhart. Nowadays Petra is known worldwide as it was featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Lunch at The Basin. Located about 2 km (1 mile) inside the gates of Petra, the Basin Restaurant by the Crowne Plaza Petra stands amongst all the splendor of Petra.

Optional: Petra by Night

Enjoy the Magic of a candle lit visit to the Rose -Red city of Petra.

The special aura of the ancient Nabatean trading empire comes to life as you enjoy a stroll through the mysterious Siq of Petra.

At Al- Khazneh (The Treasury), music and stories will help you experience Petra, as the travel- weary traders of old must have known it. The excursion departs from the Petra Visitors Center each Monday & Wednesday & Thursday evening at 20.30 hrs, returning to the Visitors Center around 22.30 hrs.

Hotel: Movenpick Resort Petra ★★★★★

Room: Superior

Meals: Breakfast, lunch