Jordan 2006
Petra
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When I departed Nuweiba, Egypt, for Aqaba, Jordan, on a Jordan fast ferry, I asked a crew member of I might get onto the aft deck to take some pictures. He immediately agreed and when I offered him some money he laughed and said, "Sir, you are not in Egypt anymore. We are not that poor to need a bribe or gift for everything we do." |
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View of Wadi Musa from the guesthouse. Everyday I walked though the town to the distant hills to Petra. I took a car, shared with others, from Aqaba to Wadi Musa, and at one point stopped to take a ...er...break, and the night was incredibly cold. |
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When in Wadi Musa, make sure to visit the large hotel Anbat for their outstanding dinner buffet |
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A walk though a wadi, created by millions of years of floods, rewards you |
with the first glimpse of what Petra is about |
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| This amazing scene is almost all you need of Petra and you'd be ok, leaving then and there with a memory to last forever. Having said that, there is a whole valley with great ruins and surrounding mountains to explore, with many paths, hundreds of stone steps to climb, and a counterpoint to this structure at the far end of Petra, up high in the hills, and beyond that a small peak with a flag, the hiker's turn-around point. |
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| This is the so-called Treasury. The color of the stone changes, from early morning, when you see it just in the reflected light from the surrounding rock, to later in the day, when the sun illuminates it fully and increases the contrast and changes the color.. |
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Almost everything here is not so much built but hewn from the rock, like this amphi theater |
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For the feeble, non-hikers, the aged, maybe the very young, there are camels and donkeys to take you all over the valley. |
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At the end of the large valley you will find a restaurant and high above it, this museum |
