Wadi Musa, Jordan Travel Blogs

The Not for Profit Hotel
Mar 19, 2005 (10 photos)

... as the lamb and if truth be told it was also delicious. That night at dinner Nasser was organizing the trip to the Wadi Rum desert the following day for the Dutchman, Canadian, Australian and myself. Several times he informed us that he "wasn't in ...

Petra
Apr 7, 2008 (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 ...

Petra!
Jul 6, 2007 (34 photos)

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 a ...

The Rose of Jordan
Nov 16, 2005 (20 photos)

... 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 hardly ...

Petra-fied
Apr 27, 2008

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Day 19: Petra
Jun 3, 2008 (6 photos)

... nbsp;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. ...

The magic of coloured stone
Jul 16, 2008 (50 photos)

... the rock were an awesome hike, but they would be deadly in the event of a flash flood.  Eventually we emerged from the wadi into...tombs.  We thought they might be what's known as the "Christian Tombs," but we weren't sure.  I followed ...

A tomb or two
Jul 17, 2008 (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 ...

Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra
Jul 15, 2008 (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 ...

Hi all still alive sorry for lack of ...
Nov 25, 2000

... which was a bit too big but had impressive mosques. Into Jordan but it is so expensive I'm bolting through it and currently in Wadi Musa to visit city of Petra (carved city at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). Was sadly unable to visit ...

Took the bus from damascus straight to ...
Nov 26, 2000

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 very ...

Final thoughts/experiences in Petra
Nov 30, 2007 (14 photos)

Still gotta write this one...

Red sand in my shoes
Nov 2, 2007 (3 photos)

... had been cancelled. Joy of joys I headed back to Aqaba only to head back in the same direction an hour later, and arrived in Wadi Musa, the small but thriving town that leads to the gate at Petra, at around one o'clock. Eager to get on my way, I ...

Petra
Aug 13, 2005 (2 photos)

Rose, rouge, jaune, bleu, noir. Toutes les couleurs y luisent sous un ciel bleu et un soleil de plomb. 2 jours sur le site sont loin d'etre suffisants pour en decouvrir toutes les merveilles mais nous ont deja ravis les yeux. Les bedouins en detiennent ...

Lawrence of Arabia's Desert
Jun 20, 2008 (21 photos)

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Petra
Apr 5, 2008 (25 photos)

... driving and walking and pictures, we went back on the road to petra.  on the way we went through two towns before wadi musa.  one was a bedouin town, the other a town called tayvet (i think).  the towns are nothing special, which perhaps ...

Petra
May 2, 2007 (14 photos)

Jeannie here.  It is a little difficult to describe the feeling of being at Petra.  You approach through a long narrow canyon (called the siq), and then all of sudden the morning sunshine reflecting off of the Treasury hits you.  As you ...

Petra
May 4, 2008 (14 photos)

Today was the day!!!!!!!!!! I had been looking forward to going back to Petra as it is so amazing but Petra's Revenge got the best of me again. This time I was prepared and took some meds right away so I could make the trek with Mom and Dad. ...

I feel like Indiana Jones
May 14, 2007 (47 photos)

... apparently it is the world's oldest mosaic map...then we went into a man's shop and he explained the whole process to us...), to Wadi Mujib reserve and looked at a huge gorge and valley, then to Karak Castle and had some lunch (and I got an Arabic keyboard ...

PETRA!!!
Nov 29, 2007 (29 photos)

... do indisputably well...bathrooms... In any case, they took me down to Petra with these students from Holland in Jordan doing water engineering internships.  They spoke fluent English (I'm jealous of all these European people and their multi ...

Dan & Kath and the Last Crusade
Jun 3, 2009 (10 photos)

... lite up the desert like a golden sea we packed up our gear had some breakfast and we back in the Jeeps heading out of the Wadi Rum area. Once back at the gates we boarded our bus for one of the most anticipated places for the whole trip, Petra! After about ...

Wadi Musa and Petra
Oct 3, 2008

... Islamic prayers at about 4:30 in the morning.  If you manage to fall back asleep, they do it again at 4:45 AM. I will be staying in Wadi Musa one more day, but this will be a day of rest. I think I've lost 10 pounds in a few days time. After that, it ...

Day 32: The King's Highway from Amman to Petra
Apr 12, 2008

Having missed the tour of the 'Beverly Hills' district of Amman, Jamileh made sure we had drove through the swanky bits of the city on our way to Petra. The whole area had been cheap scrub land as recently as the mid 80's so the elaborate mansions and ...

Hostel Battle
Nov 30, 2007

... WE GAVE TO YOU !     Mosleh My email to Hostelworld: Hello, After reviewing honestly a hostel in Jordan that I recently stayed with, I recieved the email below: (this is just the email pasted from above) I consider this email to ...

Rose-Red City
Apr 25, 2009

Our trip back from Wadi Rum to Wadi Musa was interesting...a lift to the highway with a nice German couple, a ride into Wadi Musa by an oddball truck driver and then a 500m taxi ride past our hotel, which ended with us hiking back up a steep hill ...

Petra
Jun 28, 2007 (10 photos)

Today it was off to see Petra - the highlight of Jordan so far.  We started the trek into the park at 6:30am. We walked through the 1.2km rose-red sandstone siq (a narrow passageway) humming the theme song to Indiana Jones. At the end of this narrow ...

Auf dem letzten Kreuzzug
May 9, 2009

... fuer das teuerste der drei - also meins - fast 35 Euro. Ebenso waere es schlau, seinen Proviant und seine Souvenirs draussen in Wadi Musa zu kaufen, da drinnen eine 250ml-Dose Fanta mal schnell 1,50 Euro kostet. Abgesehen davon ist Petra aber ein Erlebnis ...

Petra
Oct 24, 2006 (27 photos)

Hello!! We arrived into Wadi Musa around 4:30pm on Saturday (10/21). We checked into our hotel and found somewhere to eat as we had not eaten all day during our travels. Afterwards, we headed off to bed! On Sunday, we headed off to our first day at ...

Petra
Feb 20, 2007 (19 photos)

... .  Petra was a fascinating place to spend two days wandering; we'd have happily spent a third if our feet weren't so tired.  Our guesthouse, the Cleopetra Guesthouse in Wadi Musa, was a perfect place to spend the evenings, with a wonderful host.

PETRA
Feb 8, 2009

Sunday, Feb 8 Day 4 in Jordan Didn't quite make it up for the 7 o'clock ride to Petra but did make the 8 a.m. ride. We decided to buy the 3 day entrance and have lots of time to get to see everything. It is impressive from the beginning, with a ...