It’s pissing down with rain & we have a week in March free.

So we thought, Jordon can’t be too hot then.

So in traditional STW way I am kicking off my research.

Will a week do it justice & is independent travel a realistic option.

NB: we will be bike free !

I would say a week is pushing it depending on what you enjoy. I would say ten days does it justice otherwise you have to choose between dropping something, you basically have:
Capital – Amman
Historic – Petra and/ or Jerash
Nature – Wadi Rum and/ or red sea diving or dead sea/ Mount Nebo

Each probably is a couple of days with travel between next destination, so to fit them all in will take more than a week, if you only have a week I would drop Amman. It is amazing place and I loved the variety of stuff packed in to a small country.

You can do Amman to Petra and back again in a day if you leave before sunrise and accept that you’ll be leaving after sunset. Get a hotel at Petra if you can.

I’ve done it a couple of times, and combined it with a visit to the Dead Sea too. I wouldn’t say you’re missing anything if you skipped the Dead Sea; apart from the floatiness it just feels like you’re walking on a million fresh turds.

If you are prepared to pay for a driver, I’d recommend it. Not difficult to drive in Jordan but the speed bumps are huge and unmarked.

We did a week in Jordan in January on an organised trip and saw pretty much everything you’d want to see, but it was a week of 7am starts and we spent a lot of time sitting on a coach between places. I think you’d do well to see as much as we did travelling independently.

Great country though. Really enjoyed it.

Fwiw, this is the tour we did

https://www.fleetwaytravel.com/hotels/jordan/discover-jordan-aqaba-7-nights?currency=GBP

Cheers all,

IHN, that actually looks like a reasonable deal.

A week does sound to me a bit short. I definitely prefer a more relaxed approach so we might postpone for a year.

After 3 weeks in Uzbekistan we are supposed to be doing budget this year!

What’s the worst that could happen?

IHN, that actually looks like a reasonable deal

Yeah, we did it for £500 in the first week of Jan, which is just bonkers.

Did it on an organised bike tour a few years ago with Explore – think it was 8 days. Great way to see, hear and smell the country, though it was unbearably hot on a couple of days especially as there was little tree cover. Petra was awesome and would love to go back. There were a couple of villages where the locals threw a few things at us and another where the Police escorted us through a larger village but apart from that people were very friendly.