'Mode': TO
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: Take a taxi to the Arava crossing point (perhaps 15 or 20 minutes and 30NIS), walk through the Israeli frontier, pay the departure tax (74NIS or approx 15USD but it must be paid in shekels), walk through the Jordanian frontier, the Jordanian visa is free in Aqaba. There is very seldom much delay at this frontier; unless you have the incredibly bad luck to get yourself just behind a group you can expect to clear both border controls into Jordan within 20-30 minutes.
In Jordan, look for a taxi at the border. If there isn't one, don't panic, just wait for a few minutes, something will show up. Standard taxi fares: if you go to the bus station with the taxi approx 5JD (too much, but what to do?). If you decide to splurge or to share with other people to go directly to Petra, then DO NOT pay more than 30JD (total for the car) from the border. If you go to the bus station and find a bus, the fare is 3 and a half JD from Aqaba to Petra. The trip takes somewhere over 2 hours. Note that the last bus leaves at 3pm.
For a day trip from Aqaba to Petra, the first bus leaves at about 8am. But coming back the last bus leaves Petra at 3.30pm so you don't have very much time for a very large site. The journey takes between an hour and a half and two hours, depending on the bus.
When you leave Jordan to go back to Israel, there is an exit taxi of 5JD, which is still less than the Israeli exit tax.
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