Jordan Guide
Petra and around
Guides
The Visitor Centre is where you can hire a professional, accredited guide, at fixed prices (current rates are posted on the wall): JD20 for a simple two-and-a-half-hour tour of the major sights, or JD50 for a four-hour tour around the main central areas plus either the Monastery or the High Place of Sacrifice.
Although you can walk unguided to and from most of the main sights while staying this side of foolhardiness, there are still plenty of places in Petra where you shouldn't venture without a guide. Aside from the dangers of twisted ankles (or worse) scrambling around rocky cliffs, once you leave the main routes it's easy to lose the path. A specialist guide for a day-trip to the summit of Jebel Haroun, or one of the other outlying attractions, will cost upwards of JD100.