Explore Umm Qais Greco Roman ruins and Ajloun Islamic Castle on this private trip from Amman, with round-trip transport included in private leisure new climate conditioned vehicle with private English-Speaking Driver. Venture north through the Jordan Valley to Umm Qais, where the ruined Greco-Roman Decapolis city of Gadara covers a hillside. Take a guided tour of the paved and columned Roman streets, see the theater, mausoleum, and other remains; peek inside the small museum. Later, visit Ajloun Castle, a 12th-century fortress built under Saladin to combat the Crusaders. Explore the stone castle and tiny museum, admire the spectacular views from the towers.
Posted By : John_M
We actually signed up for this tour and a separate day tour to see Pella. Both tours were with the same company (Zaid Tours). Our driver recommended seeing Umm Qais and Pella together, and then seeing Ajloun the next day as this would reduce some travel time.
The driver/guide we had (Basel) was excellent. He was prompt, spoke very good english, and provided very interesting insights into the Jordanian culture and ways of life. We enjoyed that as much as the sights.
Our favorite sights were Umm Qais and Ajloun. The former was bigger than we expected and you can easily spend a couple of hours there. We would definitely recommend the tours and the company.
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Posted On : 2023-03-08 23:56:03 
Posted By : LaksaMan808
We actually took 4 tours offered by Zaid, and each one was very good. We were lucky enough to have the same tour guides for several trips so it allowed us to really get to know them. The service was very good, and the drivers/guides were prompt, friendly, spoke very good english, and provided us with interesting insights into the Jordanian culture and way of life. We really enjoyed our time on all the day tours.
As for the sites, our favorites were Ajloun and Umm Qais. The latter was bigger than we expected and you could easily spend a couple hours there.6
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Posted On : 2023-03-08 23:50:08 
Posted By : tsenita
My wife and I were quite disappointed in this tour for a number of reasons. First, emails sent to Zaid Tours were not answered, we had to call at our own expense to confirm. On the day of the tour, we were waiting right at the entrance to our hotel for our driver, but the driver did not find us - we eventually found him in the lounge, scrolling on his phone. The listing says that the driver is supposed to speak English, but he barely spoke English, and thus the hours of driving were spent in awkward silence. When we got to Umm Qais, we were informed that our local guide would not be there for another 45 minutes, and we could either wait or explore the site on our own. We didn't want to wait so we went inside on our own. We stopped at the visitor center - which was unmanned, and had no information about the site - only some brochures about Aqaba. Thus we wandered around with no idea what we were looking at. Also, we had gone to Jerash previously, and Umm Qais is shabby in comparison. Just go to Jerash instead, it's much better.
We did enjoy the visit to Aljoun Castle, which is why I give the tour two stars instead of one.
Finally, the last thing that annoyed us was the fact that for some reason, the driver did not allow us to keep the ticket stubs for the sites we visited. A small thing, but we like to keep them as keepsakes, and it was just one more issue on a bad day full of them.
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Posted On : 2019-11-05 16:39:07
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