Petra 1-Day Tour from Jerusalem with FREE Authentic Lunch

The company is excellent, tour guide guy informations regarding all points is clearly and with amazing attention. One of the best experience in my family vacation. I

The Petra tour was incredible, walking on those picturesque paths is wonderful, the place is magical and out of a movie, the best of the Middle East! The bus is very comfortable and the staff is very friendly.

I honestly wasn't sure whether I should go on this tour because it's such a long day and some people online seemed disppointed by Petra (too crowded, too smelly, too many people insistently trying to sell you things,...). But it was absolutely fantastic! The early start isn't so bad because you can sleep on the bus, and Petra itself is right up there with the temples at Angkor and the great wall of China. Not to be missed. Here's how the day went. I got up at 2:00 am to get to the Citadel David Hotel by 3:00. Then everyone there got on the bus when it arrived--I think people who booked through different companies all got the same tour, but since there was only one bus at that time it was easy to know which one to get on (unlike the tour I took the next day, which left at 7:55 am). I had imagined that the advertised breakfast available for purchase on the bus would be some kind of boxed meal, but it turned out that we just stopped at a couple of places on the way so people could use the bathroom and buy whatever they wanted. So if you want breakfast, take advantage of these opportunities or bring something with you to eat. There was no tour guide for this stage of the trip, only the bus driver, so it was hard to know what was going on. Once we reached the border everything was explained much more clearly. After we had crossed it wasn't too long before we reached Petra. Here we had a guided tour up to the Treasury (the most famous building at Petra) and then some time to explore on our own. There is way too much to see in an hour or two, but beyond the Treasury there were really no crowds at all and there is lots to see, climb up, etc. With so few people there you can take great pictures and just get a better view of everything. At around 4 pm we met up at a restaurant for lunch (so you really shouldn't skip breakfast!), then back on the bus. Crossing the border this way is much quicker, thankfully, but we still made two stops for bathroom visits and shopping, which slowed us down a bit. I got back to my hotel (a short walk from Citadel David Hotel) around 1 am. So it's a long day, but you can sleep on the bus, and Petra is just unmissably magnificent. It wasn't very crowded (especially once you got past the Treasury), it wasn't smelly, and the vendors were not a problem at all. I'm very, very glad I went.