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  A tour to Israel and Jordan offers travelers an adventurous, spiritual, and educational Middle East experience. Tours are ideal for individuals, family trips or organized group travel. Tours last from one to two day trips to 17-day explorations. In Israel, visit Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Galilee and Eilat; in Jordan, tours explore the Hashemite Kingdom by touring the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, the preserved ruins of Jerash and the Middle Eastern capital city of Amman.
  
  

Desert Eco Tours

• Desert Eco Tours plans longer and shorter one or two-and-a-half-day trip. Trips include tours of granite mountains, a desert jeep tour through the Jordan sand dunes and a break-of-dawn hot-air balloon ride. Tours can also include overnight stays in hotels or a Bedouin campsite in Jordan's Wadi Ram expanse--an enormous expanse of granite and sandstone mountains. Desert Eco Tours also offers a combined tour of Jordan including Petra, Wadi Rum, Jarash, and Mt. Nebo. This three-day tour, for example, departs from Eilat in the earning morning. Guests jump into jeeps, driven by professional local Bedouin driver, and journey from Eilat to Rabin into Wadi Rum, a mountainous expanse. Off-roading covers behind-the-monuments sightseeing as well as ancient merchant routes. Guests stay the night at a Bedouin hospitality camp, enjoy a group dinner and sleep in guest tents under the Arabian night skies in Wadi Rum. The following day, after a communal breakfast, it's back in jeeps on the way to Petra--a modern entrance into the ancient site. Guests travel on horseback, or by foot, to explore the sites. Desert Eco Tours includes all hotels and campsites in the price. The tour does not include some border taxes, usually around $6 per day.
  
  Desert Eco Tours
  972-522-765-753
  desertecotours.com
  
  

Snuba

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  Israel has access to four of the most beautiful and rare seas in the world--- the Mediterranean, the Dead, the Red and Galilee. With all the water, Israel offers aquatic tours for adventurous types. An unusual type of underwater exploration, called snuba, combines diving and snorkeling. Divers explore the Red Sea wearing fins and a mask but breathe through a twenty-foot long tube connected to a tank on an inflatable raft. Each diver partners with another and shares one instructor.
  
  Snuba
  972-8-637-2722
  snuba.co.il
  
  

ARZA World Tours

• To explore the capitals of the Middle East, ARZA tours features the17-Day Grand Expedition through Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Travelers depart from the US to Egypt. The magnificent tour explores starts in Egypt, exploring the mysterious and grandiose Egyptian temples and the snaking blue Nile. The tour's next stop is Petra, Jordan to discover the ancient ruins carved from Jordanian stone. Then guest make a pilgrimage to Jebel Musa--a holy site for Jordan and Israel. The 17-day trip ends in Israel, where the tour group gets an historic tour of Israel's history from the beginning of its recorded history to its Jewish heritage, to today's modern, but still preserved mecca. Travelers are also guided along the coastline from north to south Israel, where they journey makes its last stop in Jerusalem. After exploring Jerusalem for a day or longer to see all it has to offer and teach, travelers make a trip back to the US. All hotel accommodations, motor coach transportation, group dinners, sightseeing admission prices, luggage handling and the services of local guides, drivers, and the Expedition Educator guide are included in the price tag total.
  
  ARZA World
  888-811-2812
  arzaworld.com/israel-tours.aspx AZRA