The modern and ancient capital of Jordan, known in history as Rabbath-Ammon, the walled citadel and capital of the Biblical kingdom of the Ammonities and in Graeco-Roman times as Philadelphia. The city’s remains can be visited in the Citadel and Roman theater in down town.

The Greaco-Roman city of Jerash, ancient Jerash nestles in a wall-watered site in the biblical land of Gilead. It is one of the best preserved provincial Roman cities in the world with fortification walls, temples, baths, colonnaded streets, theaters, shops and oval plaza.

A short journey west from Jerash lies Qala’at Al-Rabad, the castle of Ajloun. It was built in 1184 by Usama Ibn Munqich who was one of the generals of the Arab leader Saladin.

Um Qais is known as Gadara, site of the famous Gadarene swine. It commands a beautiful view over the Jordan Valley, the sea of Galilee, the Yarmouk River and the Golan Heights.

The city of Mosaics and the biblical city of Madaba. It was once a moabite frontier town which continued inhabited in the Nabatean and Roman periods and was home of regional school of mosaicists in the Byzantine period. Madaba’s chief attraction is the six-century Byzantine mosaic map of the Holy Land in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Mt. Nebo, the memorial of Moses, the presumed site of the Prophet’s death and burial place. According to the biblical account in Genesis Moses died and was buried at Mount Nebo after seeing the Holy Land.

Karak lies in the biblical land of Moab and was a Moabite stronghold long before the Crusaders built the castle for which it is famous today. Its biblical name is Kir-haraseth as the walled city of Charachmoba on the Madaba mosaic map.