If I am planning to travel from Bethlehem to Petra of August of this year, I am a single female traveller on a budget of sorts. I wonder if anyone could offer any advice and suggest the best way to make a trip and which border crossing is the best to use.
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laketraveller
Welcome, It's actually very easy.
Five days a week (Fridays and Saturdays have different schedules and it's best not to travel on those two days) there is regular bus service between Jerusalem and Eilat. The southern border crossing will be the easiest and least expensive to cross.
My recommendation is that you take an early morning #444 bus from Jerusalem to Eilat. From Eilat you can cross the border to Aqaba, Jordan where you can take a taxi directly to Wadi Musa (Petra).
Good luck.
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marcopoloo
sophie you other option provide you have a visa for Jordan in advance
servees from bethlehem to Jerusalem Damascus Gate.then a shared taxi to King Hussein Bridge. border crossing.
Taxi to
Amman to Mujamaa Janoobi at Alwehdat and take a mini bus to Petra.
cheers
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princesserin
Dear Sophie, I have travelled the other way round two years ago - Petra to Jerusalem - and had no problem. I have gone from Amman, and used the King Hussein / Allenby Bridge, but if you are not passing through Amman, then the crossing at Eilat, that Laketraveller suggests, is the best option indeed. Also, the King Hussein / Allenby Bridge crossing is very expensive on the way back, so I suggest you pick the Eilat passage... and, let me reassure you about being a single female travelling in Jordan and Israel, I have done it before and it is really one of the safest and most quiet areas where I have been hiking, in the enitire world.
Silvia Masiero
Israel and Jordan - Hiking
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