Challenge level: 4 out of 5
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13 November - 20 November 2021 | On Sale | |
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Duration | 8 days |
Ladies, step up for your favourite charities and join us for a once-in-a-lifetime challenge across the Jordan Desert, from the beautiful Dead Sea to the ancient, hidden city of Petra. Trekking from one iconic World Heritage Site to another with our Bedouin guides, we’ll discover the local culture and legends of this unspoiled landscape, while getting fit and making new friends.
By day, we’ll make our way along ancient trails through awesome mountains, valleys and vast, barren expanses and past stunning canyons and waterfalls. The terrain may be tough, but the incredible panoramas are more than worth the work out! By night, we’ll rest in Bedouin camps and choose to sleep in tents or under a sky full of more stars you have ever seen in your life.
This challenge ends with a day exploring Petra and gaining brilliant insight into the city’s fascinating history, carved into the desert mountains.
Our Jordan Desert Trek is phenomenally popular and sells out very quickly every year. Not only do we have an incredible trekking leader with an abundance of experience and insight into the desert; but we also have two doctors accompanying us for the entire challenge, along with friendly Bedouins, porters and a group of challenge guides.
Read up on what you can expect from this challenge and check out our fab interview with our Desert Guru here.
free transfers for all 2021 challenges!
If you feel worried about travelling as your 2021 challenge draws closer, you can transfer your booking and registration fee balance to another 2021 or 2022 challenge free of charge, up until 12 weeks before your departure date.
Pay the challenge costs yourself and choose to fundraise or donate as much as you can for a charity, hospice or animal sanctuary of your choice.
$2,325
Pay the challenge costs yourself.
Pay a non-refundable registration fee and then commit to fundraising the minimum sponsorship target for a charity, hospice or animal sanctuary of your choice.
$4,650
Minimum sponsorship target
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at Dream Challenges has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety.
Please click here to see our ground-breaking plan and rest assured that you're safe booking with us.
With even the government unsure how exactly the coronavirus situation will eventuate, we can't make any guarantees; but we can promise you that we will always put your health and security first and will always be just and flexible in any decisions we have to make, regarding postponements and transfers.
If the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against travel to Jordan in 2021, the tour will either be postponed until a safer time or cancelled.
In this situation, we will email all participants registered for the challenge with options you can take, such as transferring to the postponed date or another challenge.
All tour operators and holiday insurance providers, including us, take our guidance from Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advice. Dream Challenges is also proud to be a member of ATOL and ABTOT, which means your money is always protected.
Absolutely! As part of our amazing 14-step initiative to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety on all our challenges we're delighted to have found a fantastic travel insurance policy, which covers you for COVID-19.
You can see the insurance policy here or click here to check out the full 14 actions we're taking to keep you safe.
This challenge is not designed for Olympic athletes – it is designed for people looking for an amazing goal to train and get fit for.
A number of the people who will take part in this challenge will have a low fitness level when they sign up.
This challenge is the perfect motivation to get fit and have an experience of a lifetime, while supporting the cause that means the most to you.
Please don't be! The majority of people will sign up on their own and our Dream Challenges are renowned for the amazing camaraderie and life long friendships made as our groups take on these incredible feats together.
Once you've signed up for the challenge, we'll send you a link to a private Facebook group for everyone registered for the Step by Step Jordan Desert Trek 2021.
Please feel free to use this space to swap questions, advice and updates with your fellow trekkers on your training and fundraising.
You may also want to reach out to the other participants in this group to see if there's anyone in your local area you can meet up to train and fundraise with.
Absolutely not! One of the amazing things about the challenge is that women of all ages will come together to do something very special.
Everyone who is at least 18 years old by the challenge date is more than welcome to join this awesome Step by Step challenge.
You will of course need a pair of walking boots and you'll also need to bring your own sleeping bag (medium weight).
We will supply you with a comprehensive list of everything you will need to take on the challenge well before your departure date.
On the trekking days, we'll be spending the nights camping in the desert.
You can choose to sleep in the tents we provide or most of our challengers choose to sleep under the stars.
On our first, sixth and seventh nights, we'll be staying in hotels.
The hotel near the Dead Sea is luxurious, the one in Petra more modest but certainly adequate. It will feel like a 5-star hotel after 5 nights under the stars!
Yes of course! If you wish to extend your stay you will need to come out of our group flights (and of course we would deduct the cost from your balance).
Please let us know as soon as possible if you decide to do this by emailing us at events@dream-challenges.com
In addition to paying your registration fee and your challenge costs if you choose to self fund instead of committing to a minimum sponsorship target, you will need to budget for your airport taxes and the fuel surcharge (approx. £300 but subject to change) and any optional tours you choose to participate in.
You will also need to budget for your personal travel insurance, gratuities, optional tours and personal expenses.
You will need to take out your own personal travel insurance covering health, accident, loss and repatriation.
Dream Challenges has a recommended policy that provides appropriate cover for this type of activity and also covers you for COVID-19.
We will send you the details once you have registered. You can however take out your own insurance providing it covers you for a charity trek in Jordan.
You will be required to obtain a tourist visa for entry into Jordan, we will send you all the relevant information and forms to do this before the challenge.
The Dream Challenges team are here to help you achieve your challenge and we'll support you all the way.
We are on hand from the minute you sign up to answer any questions that you may have about your training or the challenge itself.
Once you have registered, we will send you a realistic training programme to help you get fit for the event. The programme builds up gradually as the challenge gets closer.
We also have fantastic challenge guides, a group of porters and two doctors accompanying us throughout the challenge.
Step by Step is a women-only challenge; so we're afraid men won't be able to take part in this one. Most of our challenge are open to both men and women, though, so please take a look at our other treks and cycles as you'll be sure to find your Dream Challenge.
As we're not medically trained, we're afraid we can't offer you advice on this. We recommend you contact your GP or your local travel clinic, who will have the latest travel health advice.
We also recommend you visit the NHS Fit for Travel website here, to keep up to date with current travel health news and advice on staying healthy abroad.
NHS Fit for Travel website: https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home