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Day 6: Amman, Wadi Shueib, Dead Sea, Dana  
Wadi Shueib is one of the main routes down from the hills to the Jordan Valley. It has a permanent flow of water and in spring is covered in a profusion of wild flowers, which in turn provide food for insects and birds. This area should be good for brown-necked raven, woodchat shrike, warblers, blue rock thrush, rufous bush-chat, red-romped swallow, bee-eater, hoopoe and doves. The Jordan Rift Valley is a main route for birds migrating between Eurasia and Africa and huge flocks of storks and buzzards and smaller ones of black kites can often be seen passing overhead. There are also many interesting residents such as Smyrna kingfishers and Dead Sea sparrows.
Dead Sea the lowest part in the world, where you can see the tropical elements. Considered to be the best in Jordan as well as its rarity and it newly recording to the Jordan's flora such as the ophioglossum polyphyllum & Moringa aptera and the Dead Sea Orchid Epipactis veratifolia. A swim in the Dead Sea is an experience not to be missed and perhaps a mud bath too. After wadis leading down to the Dead Sea and the hot springs offer a beautiful setting to look for finches and warblers.
Along the shores of the Dead Sea passing by many unexpected springs in this otherwise barren but powerful landscape, and up to Dana.
Wadi shueib where we can find different vegetation types in one place, it is surrounded by med forest in the highlands dominated by the evergreen & dicedous oak (Quercus Calliprinos Q. aegilops) & Q. infectoria) then it changes into shrub veg. Of Retama (Retama raetam), Ferula Cmmunis, to herbs & bushes of Atriplex halimus, Salsola vermiclate and lower down by tropical species such as the ziziphs spinn.chist., Z. lotus.
Dinner and overnight at Rummana Campsite (Dana Nature Reserve).

Day 7:  Dana Nature Reserve
Spend a day in the beautiful Dana Reserve, which encompasses a major wadi leading down from the hills to the Wadi Arabah (Jordan Rift Valley) more than 1000 meters below. Here we should spot a variety of birds including Steppe and Bonelli’s eagles, Griffon vulture, black kite, Steppe and long-legged buzzards, kestrels, lanner falcon, sand partridge, chukar, palid and alpine swift, rock martins, rock and palm doves, fan-tailed ravens, Tristram’s grackles, rock sparrows, blue rock thrush, house bunting and wheatears.
Dana where to find different veg. Types included in the medet Irano-tauranian, saharo Arabian & Sudanian. You can see more than 680 species of plants from forest trees like the cypress (cypressus sempervirens), Juniper (Juniper Phoemica) to Acacia trees (Acacia radiauna & A. trrtilis) as well as different trees, shrubs herbs & grasses three of them are new to science, Rubia danaensis, Micromeria danaensis & silene danaensis.
Dinner and overnight at Dana Guest House.

Day 8: Dana, Petra, Dana
A visit to Jordan is hardly complete without a day in Petra where, amongst the breath-taking testaments of man’s past, many birds live today. The only place in Jordan to see the wild Aloe (Aloe vera) as well as scutlered Juniper (Juniperm phoenica) trees, the oldest plants in Jordan and some Black Iris (Iris petrana).
Dinner and overnight at the Dana Guest House.

Day 9: Dana, Wadi Feinan
A walk down through the scenically beautiful, major wadi flowing from the rugged mountains at 1200 meters down to the rift valley floor at sea level. Birding in one of the most dramatic areas of the Great Rift Valley, and the earliest copper mines of the region. Feinan is a unique place to see some relect species of willow salix acmophyila as well as other important trees & shrubs such as Ziziphus spina. Christ Moringa optera, Acasia radianna & A. tortilis and the rare Carallum species.
Dinner and overnight at Feinan Campsite.

Day 10: Wadi Feinan, Wadi Araba, Aqaba
This day starts by discovering the beauty of Wadi Feinan, the ancient water system and the medicinal springs.
The tour will continue in the area providing opportunities to see numerous acacia trees and marvel at the wide-open views. Here we can see variety of birds Sand partridge, Griffon Vulture, Arabian Warbler, Egyption Vulture. The area contains different veg types from Acacia stands dominated by acacia rodinunna & A. tortilis to sand dune veg dominated by Haloxylan persicum & mud flat dominated by saline vegetation.

Day 11: Aqaba     
The day will end in Aqaba on the Red Sea coast. Jordan’s window to the sea,
Aqaba brings a refreshing release from the rose-colored to the north. Its sandy beaches and coral reefs are the most pristine on the Red Sea.
In Aqaba we can spot a variety of birds White-eyed Gull, Arabian Babbler, Hooded Wheatear, Lanner, Tristram’s Grackle. A unique place to see different species of plants such as the Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) some saline vegetation and the most important plant is the doum Palm (Hyphaene thebaica) which was found after being thought to be extinct from Jordan which forms the most northern wild stand in the world.

Day 12: Aqaba, Wadi Rum, Amman
North west into the sandstone deserts of the Wadi Rum area with its rock formations made famous by Lawrence of Arabia and that are home to a number of interesting birds. The Sinai rosefinch shows its special adaptation to the local environment with its rose breast blending into the red rocks of Rum. Other birds we might see are desert and trumpeter finches, house buntings, wheatears, larks, sparrows, fan-tailed and brown-necked ravens, Arabian babblers, rock dove, sand partridge, Tristram’s grackles, eagle owl, kestrels, long-legged buzzards, short-toed eagle.
A remarkable place to see different sand dune vegetation such as Haloxylon persicum Plantage sp Calligonumsp and some Cliff vegetation mainly by perrenials such as varthmica iphionoides, Ballota undulta and the rare Micromeria sinaica.
In the upper mountains some scattered trees of Juniper (Juniperus Phoenica) & Atlantic Pistacia (apistacia atlantica) are found. Ficus pseudo-sycomorus trees are found in most of the low narrow side wadies.

Day 13: Amman
Free day in Amman the capital of Jordan. It is the modern and ancient capital of Jordan, formerly the Ammonite capital city of Rabbath- Ammon, and later the Graeco-Roman city called Philadelphia.

Day 14: Departure
Depart from Queen Alia International airport.

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