Al Anbat 1 Hotel Wadi Musa

Imagine the endless sands of the desert, punctuated by dramatic granite and sandstone mountain ranges. Now imagine a relentless sun, an impossibly azure sky, a punishing heat, and no signs of life whatsoever. Finally, picture a 4x4 straining to get through the sands, its engine roaring in fury, with 4 occupants atop, it's driver confidently pushing forward through the lands his people have called home for generations. With Bonnie and I, our new friends Michael and Bridget from ...

... the top of this long climb and see a stunning sandstone building carved into the side of a cliff-the lower Treasury, familiar from movies and travel books, was amazing as well, but I didn't feel I had learned anything from seeing it other than to say that I had seen it. But hiking to the monastery at Petra made me feel like I had truly accomplished something. From the monastery, we could see several Jordanian flags at various ...

... when you get on one it is lying down then it starts to get up with its back feet and then its front. Its sort of like a ride that is real, to tell the truth it was really uncomfortable I could not stand the itchiness of the blanket covering the camel. Well at night we served a meal by the mother of the guy that owns the hotel. It was really uhmmy! After dinner me and Isaac watched the last crusader on the TV. Esther Day29 5/4/09 Petra, Jordon Today we ...

... and kept us on the right path. The one we have at the moment was brilliant on Petra but does not seem to understand what this type of trip is about, I think he is a freelance stand in. This morning I went early into Petra, about 07.30 so I could climb to the Monistery which is a tomb at the top of what felt like a mountain. There are 900 steps and some of it is very steep. Thank goodness there is a ...

... asleep so I didn't want to wake him and I didn't want to miss seeing the Treasury at its best either before the crowds got there. I got to the Treasury at around 8 after getting past all of the tour groups. When I got there it was awesome there was hardly any tourists there what so ever and it felt really special. I managed to get some good shots with the sun and through the siq which looked awesome with the sun in the corner shinning on the Treasury. Once more tourists arrived ...

... drive along on the dual-carriage King's Highway. On the way we stopped at Mount Nebo, which where Moses is supposed to have first seen the promised land. He never made it and is believed to have been buried nearby.

After a brief stop at a mosaic workshop, where Cameron again showed his interest in all things manufacturing, we went to see a rather older mosaic at the Greek Orthodox Church ...