Travel Blogs from Wadi Musa, Jordan

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The Not for Profit Hotel, Wadi Musa (Petra), Jordan travel blog

The Not for Profit Hotel

A travel blog entry by christinasworld

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... 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 ...

Rock City!, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Rock City!

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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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 ...

Indiana Jones, Lionel Richie and Red Sea 'R and R', Dahab, Red Sea and Petra, Jordan travel blog

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

A travel blog entry by grahamandrach

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... 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 ...

Dying to go to the Dead Sea, Dead Sea, Jordan travel blog

Dying to go to the Dead Sea

A travel blog entry by jambo

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... to become Person 1, as above.   With slightly sore heads, we wake up on Thursday morning and catch a bus off to Amman, Jordan's capital city.  It is there that our Group of Eight begins to separate.  Rene is flying back to Holland, Mark ...

Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... 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-fied, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra-fied

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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The Rose of Jordan, Wadi Musa (Petra), Jordan travel blog

The Rose of Jordan

A travel blog entry by kimandmartin

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... 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 ...

Petra!, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra!

A travel blog entry by tracystravels

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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 ...

Day 19:  Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Day 19: Petra

A travel blog entry by journeyer

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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. ...

The magic of coloured stone, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

The magic of coloured stone

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... 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, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

A tomb or two

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... 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 was here! Breathtaking Petra!, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Indiana Jones was here! Breathtaking Petra!

A travel blog entry by worldtraveler2

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Petra is one of those places that is a must see on anyone's list that want to see the amazing construction of ancient times.  The best time to go is early early in the morning, we were there by 7am and there was hardly anyone there.  Walking ...

Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Petra

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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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 ...

Hi all still alive sorry for lack of ..., Wadi musa, Jordan travel blog

Hi all still alive sorry for lack of ...

A travel blog entry by gdrenfrew

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... 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 ...

Took the bus from damascus straight to ..., Wadi Musa / Petra, Jordan travel blog

Took the bus from damascus straight to ...

A travel blog entry by gdrenfrew

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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 ...

the road to petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

the road to petra

A travel blog entry by senorbrian

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... ;Treasury (the famous photo) and the high place of sacrifice offered an impressive view of the area. the main downside to jordan coming from say turkey or syria is that most of the tourist sites IE wadi rum and the dead sea can be difficult ...

Final thoughts/experiences in Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Final thoughts/experiences in Petra

A travel blog entry by ebolaben

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Red sand in my shoes, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Red sand in my shoes

A travel blog entry by doowral

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... Petra 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, ...

Exploring the Ruins of Ancient Petra - Awesome, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Exploring the Ruins of Ancient Petra - Awesome

A travel blog entry by jpischedda

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... .       "Wadi" is water and "Musa" is Moses, particularly the Moses of biblical fame. According to legend, Wadi Musa is where Moses struck a rock with his staff and produced water for his people. We spent two nights in Wadi Musa ...

Petra, Petra - Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra

A travel blog entry by alixetfab

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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 ...

Walking the Wadi, Petra Jordan, Jordan travel blog

Walking the Wadi

A travel blog entry by jemthegem

... , and they are Mennonite(one of their foundational beliefs is non violence, so interesting. Then we crossed the boarder into Jordan, there was someone gaurding the boarder and Micah(6) decided to announce really loudly that he had a big gun! AHAH. As soon ...

Gold is Just the First Colour, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Gold is Just the First Colour

A travel blog entry by bernie-s

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On the bus from Amman, as I approached Wadi Musa - the village closest to Petra - the scenery became dramatic. With huge grey mountains forming a moonscape around the village. As the bus twisted round the mountains I could glimpse at the home of the ...

Lawrence of Arabia's Desert, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Lawrence of Arabia's Desert

A travel blog entry by wrlondon

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See ...

Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra

A travel blog entry by aarondewitt

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... 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 ...

Wadi Musa, October 6, 2009., Tuesday, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Wadi Musa, October 6, 2009., Tuesday

A travel blog entry by the_wayfarer

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... hotel. Out of those that I considered, of course. They still had a couple of rooms free, so I decided to stay right there. Wadi Musa is a town that until relatively recently probably even wasn’t a town at all, but rather only a village. But seeing ...

Views of the Monastery from the top of the cliffs, Petra, Jordan travel blog

Views of the Monastery from the top of the cliffs

A travel blog entry by momentsintime

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Dear Blog, After leaving the Monastery, Michel and I followed a path that lead us higher on the mountain in search of the promised wonderful views indicated on the signs along the trail.   Being in the middle of the afternoon, the ...

Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra

A travel blog entry by kcroone

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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, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

I feel like Indiana Jones

A travel blog entry by papayaprincess

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... East...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 ...

Archaic capital city of the Nabateans, Maan, Jordan travel blog

Archaic capital city of the Nabateans

A travel blog entry by fatkidfrogs

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Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan travel blog

Petra

A travel blog entry by seanandjeannie

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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 ...

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