Monastery (Al Dayr) Wadi Musa

Wadi Musa , Jordan

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  • 1

    Rock City!

    53 photos

    Say it in your best Sean Connery voice. Rock City. Rock City. Good stuff. After a 3 hour transfer from Amman, we arrive in Wadi Musa. Wadi Musa is the town built beside Petra, one of the 7 wonders. Petra is the reason I am here. By 11am, I am walking in ...

  • 2

    Petra

    38 photos

    ... from the rock. After the Treasury, which was more likely a tomb of a king, Petra opened into a wider canyonland of Wadi Musa, surrounded by High Places of sacrifice and worship for the polytheistic pagan gods from around the Middle East.  Tombs ...

  • 3

    The Rose of Jordan

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    ... and salad. Yummy. (We even went back for another fill the day we picked up the truck in Petra.) We've been awoken each day in Wadi Musa by roosters - at 2:30 am! Crazy, mixed-up birds. We have gotten so used to the early morning call of the mosque we ...

  • 4

    Petra!

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    On the 5th and 6th we were in Wadi Musa seeing the ruins of Petra. Petra was very interesting too.  We had a two day pass and we hiked through the gorges and saw the breathtaking stone carved monument called the Treasury and then hiked up about ...

  • 5

    Day 19: Petra

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    ... made some suggestions of where we might walk in the afternoon.  The three best preserved sites, in this order are:  the monastery, the palace, the treasury.  There are 112 steps to get to the monastery or we can take a donkey ride, but in ...

  • 6

    Indiana Jones was here! Breathtaking Petra!

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    ... day here.  We were too lazy to walk up the mountain so we rode donkeys that took us to the top where there was a beautiful monastery carved into the mountain.  When we got to the top, there was a sign that said “the end of the ...

  • 7

    Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra

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    ... money on day trips from Israel have driven up prices and created a dual pricing structure.  This means that whatever you buy in Wadi Musa, you're paying twice to three times what locals pay for the same item.  It creates a level of deceit that ...

  • 8

    Took the bus from damascus straight to ...

    ... , quite spectacular. The Treasury which is in all the photos (and Indiana Jones) was fantastic, but beaten in the stunning stakes by the Monastery which is at the top of a hill over looking the plains below. Bit of an effort to get to (40 minute hike) ...

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    the road to petra

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    ... (especially considering 90% of  the tourists are 60 plus and probably missed these areas unless they rented a donkey. the monastery is equally as impressive as the Treasury (the famous photo) and the high place ...

  • 10

    Walking the Wadi

    ... that I'll just move here :P Then we arrived, Petra is breathtaking. Words and pictures do no justice. We climbed to the top of the monastery, a mere 905 steep steps up. When we got down it was getting late so our donkey owner(we got a donkey for Micah, a ...