• 5:40 PM - Austrian 88 - Depart: New York
   

• 8:25 AM - Arrive: Vienna - layover 1 hour 45 minutes

• 10:10 AM -  Austrian 853 - Depart: Vienna

• 2:45 PM - Arrive: Amman

• Pick up rental car

• Directions and street signs not necessarily helpful should be a 30 minute drive, but driving through Madaba was over 30 minutes by itself

• Best Western Madaba 962 53240403, 607688561
  Aisha Um Al Mumeneen Street
  Madaba
   

Visit Madaba Archaeological site in the morning and drive to Mt Nebo and Dead Sea - short drives (Mt Nebo is ~30 minutes from Madaba, Dead Sea about 30 minutes from Mt. Nebo

Holiday Inn Dead Sea (check-in)
962-5-3495555
63174334 & 63174339
PO Box 170 Dead Sea Road
Dead Sea

Time for a "float" and a mud bath in the Dead Sea
 

• Morning drive along the Dead Sea Coast

• Crusaders castle in Kerak, watch out for the signs they are hard to see

• Petra Moon Hotel, 962 32156 220, 163938
  Near Visitor Center, Petra

• Quick visit to Petra in the afternoon (bought the 3 day pass for 60 dinar best deal), negotiated with Bedoins for next day tour

• Dinner at rooftop restaurant at Petra Moon Hotel.  Mezza to start, Arabic mixed grill and hubbly bubbly (hookah) watching the moon rise and fireworks over the town
   

• Stay Petra Moon Hotel

• Meet Nile and the rest of the guides at the end of the Sig (by the Treasury building)

• All day tour on donkey of Petra, from the Treasury to the Place of High Sacrifice to the Monastery

• Stops for tea and pomegranite along the way

• Lunch in Petra

• Dinner at the Movenpick (across the street from the Petra Moon)  - burgers and beer!

• Stay at Petra Moon Hotel

• Met in the Bedoin village by the mosque

• Ride out into the desert

• Traditional meal in the desert - guests eat first so we felt guilty as our guides watched us eat

• Back to Nile's house to meet the family

• Dinner again at the Movenpick

• Easy two hour drive through the desert to Aqaba - they do have checkpoints along the way for security

• Radisson Blu Tala Bay Resort South Beach Road, 77110 Aqaba

• Relaxing by the pool and swimming in the Red Sea
  
   

• Radisson Blu Tala Bay Resort

• Snorkeling in the Red Sea

• Massage at the Spa

• Dinner in Tala Bay with a view over the marina

• Sunset Terrace for dessert and some hubbly bubbly as the sun sets over the Red Sea with Egypt and Israel in the background across the Red Sea

• Quick drive up from Aqaba

• Buy tickets IN the visitor center - ignore all of the people trying to help you outside.  We were staying in Khaled's camp that night and they all claimed to be his friend.

• Exploring Wadi-Rum by jeep and a bit of hiking

• Lunch in the desert

• Overnight in Khaled's camp (with tea and traditional Bedoin meal)

• Camel ride out of the desert

• Four hour drive to Amman

• Amman Marriott Hotel, 6265607607, 83285337
  Issam Al Aljouni Street, Shmeissana
  Amman, 11190

• Dinner at the hotel
  
   

• Drive to Jerash - about an hour

• Tour ruins

• Explore neighborhoods in Amman

• 2:55 AM - Lufthansa 693 - Depart: Amman

• 6:35 AM - Arrive: Frankfurt

• 10:20 AM - Lufthansa 400 - Depart: Frankfurk

• 12:45 PM - Arrive: New York