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Wadi Musa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Wadi Musa, Jordan
The Not for Profit Hotel
This is a top pick! ... 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!
This is a top pick! 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'
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Rose of Jordan
This is a top pick! ... 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!
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... ;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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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!
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
This is a top pick! 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
... ;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 ...
Red sand in my shoes
... 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" 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
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
... , 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
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 ...
Petra
... 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
... 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
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
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
... 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 ...
Petra
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 ...