Horsemanship Tour

After breakfast you can start your visit of the archaeological site of Petra. Overnight in Petra. 

After an early breakfast you start your 2 hour drive to Wadi Rum. 

Introduction to the team and you start with a 2,5 hour ride in the morning until the lunch place. 

After lunch we will start the horsemanship course. First afternoon you learn the basic groundwork with your horse. 

Overnight under the stars or in a tent. 

After a good breakfast you ride to the Burrah canyon. You will ride through the canyon, this will take 1 hour. After the canyon you continue to the mushroom stone where you can take some nice pictures. 

Lunch will be in this area. After lunch you go to the Burdah arch, where you can take some more nice pictures. The morning will be spent on horseback and after lunch the horsemanship programme will be:

Practice on the ground

• habituation to the stick, 
• habituation to the movements, 
• habituation to the flag.

Controlling the environment by controlling your feet; hindquarters and forequarters by feel. 

Does my horse understand my body language; backing up to distance and bringing back to trot. 

After a good night's sleep and a good breakfast, you start with the theory: the four personalities of the horse. 

• Practice on the ground; 
• Then I work my horse from a distance; 
• Sending on the circle 
• Disengaging from the circle. 
• Can his feet become my feet; 
• Leading your horse from close to close. 

Followed by a good lunch after which you ride through a small canyon to the famous Wadi Rum arch, Um Frut arch. 

Overnight at Burdah bridge. 

A whole day dedicated to horsemanship science. 

Some theory: How to understand what my horse is feeling?

Riding practice

• how to successfully soothe my horse; 
• lateral bending;
• hindquarters by feeling;
• Backing up with a signal. 

Ground practice

• Does my horse trust me; 
• preparation for freedom.

You stay a second night at the Burdah bridge. 

After a hearty breakfast, you start with mounted practice. This is the last part of the horsemanship science course.  

How to ride freely

• steering without hands;
• impulsion without hands. 

In the afternoon you will ride between the border of the white and red desert to reach the place where you will spend the night, Um Mugur. 

You continue to ride between the white and red desert until lunch. After lunch, you ride back to the village through the Khazali canyon. You will be able to dismount and visit the Khazali canyon where you can see ancient Thamudic, Nabatean, Coufic inscriptions and petroglyphs. Once back at the stables you will be taken by jeep to our camp for dinner and overnight. 

Transfer from Wadi Rum to the Dead Sea. It takes about 3 hours to reach the Dead Sea. Here you can relax, float and have a nice lunch. When you have finished, you can ask your driver to take you to the hotel in Madaba. 

Transfer from your hotel in Madaba to Queen Alia International Airport in Amman.