Umm el-Jimal Tickets and Tours

Explore Jordan’s Eastern Castles Private Full-Day Tour from Amman

Excellent experience

I would appreciate the VIP Limousine for the service they're giving for us, we have visited the desert castles and we spent an amazing time, then we hed towards Amman City to have our lunch that's called Mansaf and it was very delicious. Many thanks again

Expedition to JAWA and Umm El-Jimal

This is the one.

Alex is the best. He knows his stuff, is always on time, goes beyond the call of duty to take care of his clients. You forgot water? Alex has you covered. You need a bit of sugar to boost your energy? Alex is way ahead of you. You already bought a Jordan Pass? Alex will reimburse every entry fee he doesn't need to pay for you. The itinerary is very well designed and Alex is happy to take into consideration any physical limitations you may have, even if it is just because you hiked a little too hard the day before =) . What can I say about the sites we saw on this tour? Umm el-Jimal is unbelievably, hauntingly beautiful. My Jordan tour book says that the place can be a little bleak at first owing to every building being made of basalt blocks, but that it grows on you after a little bit of time exploring. I found that to be a completely perfect description of it. There are thousands of intriguing, even charming little aspects of the place as you walk, climb, even crawl around the buildings. These were homes and places of worship and businesses left almost entirely untouched for the past nearly fifteen hundred years. And the site is vast. My son and I immediately decided we would need at least two days to really explore the site on our next visit. Having said that, if you are not quite as super geeky about this as we are, you will also be able to see the main attractions here in the time allotted in the tour. There are a couple of other nice sites Alex stops at along the way, but the other main course is Jawa. What a place. Only fairly recently has it started to be recognized for the significance it holds. It's the oldest proto-urban site in Jordan with the oldest masonry gravity dam known in the ENTIRE WORLD. When you first get there it might not look like much is left to explore, and it has succumbed significantly to entropy in the past 5,500 years, but there is still a lot to see here. The site is littered with surface artifacts to see and marvel at. The dams are amazing in their ingenuity at a time before they even had bronze. Alex told us that we were only the second people to book this tour in the past year. That's unimaginable to me. These sites were some of the most beautiful and most emotionally powerful I saw on our whole visit to Jordan. If you are looking for a tour that takes you incredible places most, even other tour guides we spoke to, have never even heard of, this is the one.