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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

    Indiana Jones, Lionel Richie and Red Sea 'R and R'

    13 photos

    ... and a half later.. After entering Jordan, our 17th country (19 if you count Hong Kong and Tibet), we got a taxi straight up to Wadi Musa, the service town for Petra, as we, at this stage of the journey, are tiring of bus stations and long waits... Along ...

  • 3

    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 ...

  • 4

    The Rose of Jordan

    20 photos

    ... 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 ...

  • 5

    Day 19: Petra

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    ... ;Carry some with you in a backpack so you can be sipping regularly. ·    American dollars are accepted.  Being in Jordan for such a short time, we were happy not to have to get local currency.  Bring $1, $5, $10 and $20 U.S. ...

  • 6

    The magic of coloured stone

    50 photos

    ... would be stupid, and (surprisingly) he obeyed.  Our special plan led us through an old wadi that the Nabateans used to divert floodwater from the siq.  It was a grand adventure.  Before walking down to the siq and through the Nabatean ...

  • 7

    A tomb or two

    41 photos

    ... me, then Travis, until finally some other people came along and she went to talk to them.  She was a lovely small cat.  In Wadi Rum I read about Desert Sand Cats, and while I doubt she was one that's what I decided to think of her as.  My ...

  • 8

    Indiana Jones was here! Breathtaking Petra!

    35 photos

    ... best time to go is early early in the morning, we were there by 7am and there was hardly anyone there.  Walking through the Siq, we pretty much had it all to ourselves which was nice as it was nearly impossible to walk there in the afternoon as it ...

  • 9

    Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra

    77 photos

    ... 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 ...

  • 10

    Took the bus from damascus straight to ...

    Took the bus from Damascus straight to Amman and got a service taxi from Amman down to Ma musa to visit Petra. 3 of us split the fare which came to about 8pounds each for a 3hr run which was ok. Bit over budget and the driver was a bit of a diddy and ...