🌿 Dead Sea & Jordan Valley Hiking

About This Adventure

The Jordan Valley drops from the highlands of Amman to the Dead Sea — 430 m below sea level — through a series of seasonal wadis that fill with winter run-off and dry to beautiful carved limestone canyons by spring. The hiking here is different from anywhere else: you are literally descending below sea level, the air thickens, and the landscape shifts from scrubby Mediterranean hillside to subtropical valley.

Wadi Zarqa Ma'in leads to hot spring waterfalls that pour directly into a cold canyon river — one of Jordan's stranger natural attractions. Wadi Mujib (the "Grand Canyon of Jordan") offers canyon hikes and the famous Siq Trail canyoning route. The nature reserves around the Dead Sea hold flamingo populations in winter along the saline evaporation ponds.

The sense of elevation loss is disorienting and oddly euphoric; your ears pop descending into the valley, and the pressure difference is enough to affect some hikers' breathing until they acclimatise.

What's Included

• Trail guide or self-guided route notes
• Transport to trailhead (on request)
• Entry to RSCN nature reserves where applicable