Tours to Kings Highway

Winding its way through the country, Kings Highway takes travelers on tours of Jordan through farmland plateaus, forest highlands, ravines, the outskirts of the desert, and the Gulf of Aqaba. There are also a multitude of archaeological sites that can be seen during tours to Kings Highway-Ammon, Crusader Castles, Moab and Edom, a Roman-Herodian fortress, Petra, and more.

Kings Highway was first mentioned in the Bible as the route that Moses wanted to follow when he led his people through Edom, which is currently southern Jordan. The name Kings Highway was derived from one of the earliest recounts in the Bible in Genesis 14 in which an alliance of "four kings from the north" marched troops along this route to do battle against the 5 kings of the Cities of the Plain, which included Sodom and Gomorrah.

Travelers to Kings Highway are often surprised to learn that it is still the world´s oldest consistently used communication route. Linking ancient Giliad, Bashan, and Ammon with Moab, Edom, Paran, and Midian, Kings Highway delights people on guided Jordan tours with its amazing historic roots.

Kings Highway is the world's oldest continuously used communication route. It linked ancient Bashan, Giliad, and Ammon in the north with Moab, Edom, Paran, and Midian in the south. In the Bible, Moses asked the King of Edom if he could have permission to take his people "along the King´s Highway" on their journey to Canaan, though he was refused. Kings Highway is mentioned as early as Genesis 14:5-8 in the Bible.