Petra Day Trip from Aqaba Port - Small Group Tour

Your ship docks in Aqaba, and Petra sits ninety minutes inland. This Petra day trip from Aqaba makes those hours count — collecting you at the cruise exit door and getting you back with margin to spare.

Petra is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, and it earns the billing. Founded by the Nabataean Arabs around the 6th century BC, it's a city cut directly into rose-red sandstone by a people who built a trading empire on the incense route and engineered water systems sophisticated enough to sustain a desert capital.

You'll enter as everyone has for two thousand years — on foot through the Siq, a 1,200-metre gorge with walls climbing more than 80 metres overhead, narrowing and turning until the rock shifts through reds, oranges and violets around you. It ends with the reveal no photograph prepares you for: the Treasury, framed in the gap ahead.

Your local guide walks the route with you and stays through your time at the Treasury, explaining how the Nabataeans cut it, why it's there, and what the carvings mean.

Lunch at a local restaurant follows before the drive back to the ship.

Because this is a group tour to Petra rather than a private one, you get a guide and a comfortable vehicle at a fraction of the private cost — with small numbers rather than a full coach.