Jordan is a beautiful country to visit. There are so many of the best places dotted all across the country from Umm Qais to Aqaba.
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Aqaba
The town offers a sociable stopover en route to the diving and snorkeling clubs to the south and the big destinations of Wadi Rum and Petra.
Aqaba carries the relaxed, small-town atmosphere of a popular local getaway. The town offers a sociable stopover en route to the diving and snorkeling clubs to the south and Wadi Rum and Petra's big destinations. It’s also an obvious place to break a journey to or from Israel and the Palestinian Territories or Egypt.
Aqaba's greatest asset is the Red Sea itself. The temperate climate and gentle water currents have created a perfect environment for corals' growth and a teeming plethora of marine life. Here you can swim with friendly sea turtles and dolphins as they dart among the schools of multi-colored fish. Night dives reveal the nocturnal sea creatures, crabs, lobsters, and shrimp, as they search for a midnight snack.
There are several dive centers in Aqaba. All offer well-maintained diving equipment, professional instructors, and transport by boat to various dive sites.
What can you Experience in Aqaba?
Aqaba is rich of activities and things to do from Leisure to culture.
Sea Glass Jewelry Making experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Special Art Activity
Henna and Kohl Drawings Experience
- Aqaba, Petra, Wadi Rum
- Tailor-made Request
- Traditional Art Activity
Snorkeling to clean the Red Sea
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Water Activities
Bottled Sand Art experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Special Art Activity
Aqaba Dog Shelter Conservation Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Environment Support Activity
Date Molasses Making Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Cooking Art Activity
Aqaba’s Hooh Sweets Making experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Cooking Art Activity
Local Food Making experience in Aqaba
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Cooking class and Food Making
Arabian Bread Baking Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Cooking Art Activity
Sesame bars with honey & Roasting dates cores coffee Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Cooking Art Activity
Colorful Dot Art Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Special Art Activity
Fishing with a Local Fisherman
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Water Activities
Glass and Canvas Painting Experience
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Community Support & Special Art Activity
Private Cruise Dinner
- Aqaba
- Tailor-made Request
- Incentive Group, Gala Dinner, Private Activity
Private cruise with BBQ
Enjoy a private cruise excursion that gives you an opportunity to explore Red Sea coral reel with your friends and relatives. Try snorkeling at the best spots, we provide you with snorkeling equipment. You will enjoy a mouthwatering BBQ meal on board of the boat with open soft drinks and water.
Sea Glass Jewelry Making experience
Learn a sea recycling art! Sea glass is a physically and chemically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt water. These weathering processes produce natural frosted glass. "Genuine sea glass" can be collected as a hobby and is used for decoration, most commonly in jewelry. Sea glass can be found here in Aqaba, where it is collected to craft unique pieces of jewelry.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Henna and Kohl Drawings Experience
Arabic beauty secrets!
Henna has been used and known since ancient times, and it has a special rolein many cultures. Henna is widely usedin cosmetics,thanks to its ability to dye hair and skin with a long-lasting pigment.
Kohl is considered one of the oldest types of cosmetics, and it was usedby anumber ofancient culturesto emphasize the beauty of the eyes of both men and women.
Snorkeling to clean the Red Sea
The Aqaba coastline is 27 km long and characterized bybeautifulbeaches that hostmany different touristic activities. Unfortunately, many of these activitiesexpose the sea and marine life to thedangers of pollution.
The Snorkeling for a Clean Sea experience involves swimming with colored fish and exploring the waters of the Red Sea, all while protecting this environment and its inhabitants by picking up waste that has accumulated among the coral reefs.
You can feel satisfied knowing that youhave enjoyed the colorful coral and sea life, while also sustainingit byhelping to keepit clean.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Bottled Sand Art experience
This art practice is one of the oldest inthe world. The first to discoverit were the Nabataeans after their invention ofthe hourglass. The city of Aqaba is home to this unique art, and since the early 1930s it has housed dozens of shops for visitors to purchase the colorful creations.
Aqaba Dog Shelter Conservation Experience
RSNAP is a nonprofit organization, established for the solepurpose of generating compassionate and conscientious conduct towards nature and animals andimproving thelocal community’s relationshipwith its surrounding environment.
The Aqaba dog shelter needsthe help ofvolunteersto clean the local dogs’caves in the mountains.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Date Molasses Making Experience
Date molasses is another term for date syrup, which is frequently called molasses since it has the dark color and thick consistency of sugar molasses. It isfrequently used as a sweetener in Middle Eastern recipes.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Aqaba’s Hooh Sweets Making experience
Aqaba’s traditional sweet dish, calledHooh,consists of several layers of dough interspersed with nuts, butter, honey, condensed milk, molasses, and cream.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Local Food Making experience in Aqaba
Sayadia and Bokhari are twoof the most famouslocalfood dishes in Aqaba and are made up of many different spices. The people of Aqaba typically make these dishes onofficial occasions and events.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Sesame bars with honey & Roasting dates cores coffee Experience
Sesame bars are one of the easiest ancient Arabic recipes you can make,and one that is still eaten by Arabs all over the world. They area great snack to startoffyour day or enjoy with a cup of teain the afternoon.
The seeds of the coffee berry, also known as coffee beans, contain high levels of nutrients and antioxidants. Arab cultures were the first to roast these seeds and use them to make a warm, caffeinated beverage. Today, Bedouin tribes still have their own methods for roasting coffee beans, producing a coffee drink with a distinctive taste.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Colorful Dot Art Experience
This type of decorativeart enteredArab culture recently and is similar to stippling or pointillism. Colorful patterns or images are created by placingsmall dots or points of color together, rather than using solid lines or brush strokes.This technique can be used to decorate books, stones, or home furniture.
Fishing with a Local Fisherman
The Gulf of Aqaba contains more than 500 species of fish out of 1400 species that live in the waters of the Red Sea. These fish belong to 13 families of fish cartilage.And 78 families of fish bone. More than 85 percent live close to the seabed while 15 percent live in open water.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Philography Islamic Ottoman Art Experience
Philography is an old Islamic Ottoman art moved from Turkey to Jordan through the Ottoman era in the region. The Ottomans left behind many of the types of the arts that their descendants still seek to preserve from extinction and keep for generations after generation.
These include the art of "Philography" or drawing with wires and nails, which some may think it’s a men's art because of its tools, which consist of wood, hammers,Nails and colored fabric or copper wires. But many women in Turkey have been involved in this art, and there have been artists who apply it in a scientific way and organize workshops to teach it. They also hold exhibitions all over the world, especially in the Arab and Islamic countries, where some of the traces left by the Ottomans such as Jordan.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Glass and Canvas Painting Experience
Be Eco-friendly! Up-cycling used glass jars to turn them into a nice home decorating object is an important type of art that not only adds beauty to our places, but also contribute to our environment through two of the main three (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) the latter two are in our case.
Revenues are donated to the local community and needy people.
Visiting Royal Yacht Club Restaurant
With views of the marina, this elegant, wood-paneled restaurant is the place to savour a romantic sunset and mingle with Aqaba’s nouveau riche. The mostly Italian menu includes Mediterranean favorites like crab, avocado, shrimp and artichoke salad, mussels Provençale and homemade vegetarian pasta.
Water Sports Activities
A wide range of water sport activities including water skiing, jet skiing, parasailing, banana boat, inner tube rides and more are organized by our professional and friendly team.
Golf Experience
Standing over 350,000 square meters of rolling green fairways, the Ayla Golf Academy catalyzes to create opportunities for Jordanians, residents, and visitors through ensuring their easy access to world-class golfing amenities as well as help them hone their golfing skills.
Snorkeling and Diving Experience
Enjoy a cruise excursion that gives you an opportunity to explore Red Sea coral reel with your friends and relatives. Try diving and snorkeling at the best spots. We provide a local lunch on a board with open soft drinks. The seaport town of Aqaba sits at the southernmost point of Jordan and is home to one of the best snorkeling and diving coastlines in the world, with many centers and professional instructors catering to these sports. You can revel in captivating sea reef colors and the incredible biodiversity, complete with approximately 130 species of coral and hundreds of species of fish and other animals.
Private Cruise Dinner
After a long, sun-drenched day by the sea, indulge in a little luxury with a delicious dinner at this exclusive club. Venue: The Yacht Club sits in front of its own small marina, offering an excellent view of the gently bobbing luxury yachts that it hosts, as well as Aqaba's gulf beyond. The Royal Yacht Club is the most exclusive venue in Aqaba, and is often His Majesty King Abdullah II's venue of choice for hosting dinner quests in Aqaba Dinner: The Club is renowned for serving up an exquisite menu, and is particularly known for its seafood dishes.
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