Middle East Trips for Women

The Middle East isn’t on your radar because Instagram keeps feeding you the same five European castles. Fix that. This is Jordan — Petra carved into rose-red cliffs and a night sky in Wadi Rum so loaded with stars it looks fake. It’s not. Your phone camera just can’t handle it.

Expect your days to swing hard: canyoneering through narrow slot canyons in the morning, tucked into a glamping tent under an absurd number of stars by night, and somewhere in between, floating in the Dead Sea like gravity temporarily gave up on you.

The hummus is better than anything you’ve had at a fast-casual chain calling itself “authentic.” The camels are optional. The friendships made over Bedouin tea are not. By the end, you’ll have walked into a UNESCO World Heritage Site at sunrise and somehow still made it back in time for wine.