Things to do in Petra - Wadi Musa, Ma'an Governorate: The Best Spas & Wellness

Wouldn’t it be great to have a massage after a day of hiking in Petra? Well, you can! Just take an hour to get relaxed and refreshed again. I will welcome you with a cup of tea in my lovely house in Wadi Musa, B&B Petra Fig Tree Villa. It’s less then five minutes by car from the entrance of Petra.And you can hike up the hill in 15 minutes. You can take a seat on the chair and enjoy a 15 minute massage. It will get your energy level up again and, after a glass of replenishing water, you are ready for your next activity. Send me a message to make your reservation.

Petra hammam (the middle eastern variant of a steam bath) is an attempt to recreate that centuries old arabic bathhouse experience, through the ritual of cleansing & relaxing. Whether you have tried the hammam on your holiday elsewhere or you want to try it for the very first time, petra hammam provides you, this unique experience that will leave you feeling clean, fresh & very relaxed!

The Turkish bath starts with relaxation in a room (known as the warm room) that is heated by a continuous flow of hot, dry air, allowing the bather to perspire freely. Bathers may then move to an even hotter room (known as the hot room) before they wash in cold water. After performing a full body wash and receiving a massage, bathers finally retire to the cooling-room for a period of relaxation.

Al Yakhor Turkish bath is located in Quiet Street where next to Petra Palace hotel. Just 200m far from main gate of Petra. 01 hour Turkish bath consist of steam bath (about 15 minutes), lying down on a hot stone slab (10-15 minutes), body scrub & massage (15-20minutes) and then showing afterwards. The purpose of Turkish bath is BODY DETOX and CLEAN THEIR DEAD SKIN. Please note that Turkish Bath is completely different from Swedish Massage, Thai Massage, Indian Ayurubeda spa and other luxury Spa/Estes etc. In our bath, there is shampoo, body lotion & soap etc but we put things in proportion to the price. So, if you prefer to use the richest shampoo, lotion, soap & treatment stuff etc, please ask the reception staff who will advise & provide you with fee. Moreover, in our new policy, we do not accept any improper people such as homosexual, taking drug & alcohol etc to enter our Turkish bath. To avoid any unnecessary claims, review for other people & respect our Turkish Bath, please kindly do your behavior in appropriately. *Turkish Bath Freshen up with a centuries-old spa treatment. A scrub in a Turkish bath is not just part of a bathing ritual, it also helps with detox and enhancing our immune system.The Turkish bath, also known as a hammam, is the Middle Eastern variant of a steam bath. During the Ottoman Empire, Turkish baths served as places of social gathering and ritual bathing. Today people use the hammam as a pampering form of cleansing and relaxation.How the hammam works:The Turkish bath is modeled on the Roman system of bathing with a warm room, hot room and cool room. The bather enters the warm room where their body warms up, then enters the hot room, or steam room, which has water basins along the walls and a large heated stone platform in the center. The bather can rest on the stone to increase body temperature and promote sweating, then rinse off at the water basins. One of the main specialties of the Turkish bath is the foam and scrub massage where a masseuse or masseur lathers up the bather with a special cloth sack full of foam and scrubs off dirt and dead skin with a loofah. The bather can then continue to relax in the hot room and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the steam and heat.