Day Tour to Petra from Sharm el Sheikh

Sightseeing  :  Egypt  :  South Sinai Governorate  :  Sharm El-Sheikh  :  Day Trips

Discover and enjoy this one day trip to Petra by ferry boat from Sharm el Sheikh. Petra is a historical and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Maan that is known for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system established sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans. It is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourism attraction It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba). Your tour starts with an early morning drive for approximately three hours to Taba port, where you'll take the ferry boat at 7:30am to Aqaba (you'll arrive at 8:45am). From there, you'll drive to Petra by bus for approx. 2 hours, where a 2-3 hour guided tour begins. The group enters Petra on foot, though the Siq, a narrow, winding gorge over 1 kilometer in length. We visit the Great Treasury (Al-Khazneh Farun), the Roman Theatre, the Royal Tombs (the Rainbow Tomb is a must for photographers), as well as hundreds of monuments, tricliniums, and obelisks, all carved from the multi-shaded, rose red sandstone. A walk through the colonnade of Roman Byzantine Petra brings us to the city centre for lunch.