Beit Zaman Wadi Musa

We woke up at 4:30am on sunday morning to make our way to Petra. Got picked up at 5am, made our way to the ferry in Taba, Egypt and took a quick ferry ride over to Jordan, only 35 minutes! We hopped on a nice air conditioned bus and made our way to Petra. A really cool thing about Jordan and driving by the red sea, is that we could sea 4 countries at one time!
Egypt, Israel, jordan, and Saudi Arabia all side by ...

... wel gaaf! Je komt eerst door een lange kloof, en dan doemt de Treasury heel indrukwekkend als een soort lichtspleet op. Bij de Treasury probeerde ik de Rough Guide foto na te bootsen, en we aaiden wat kamelen. Een kamelendrijver herkende ons uit het Bedouinendorp en had daarom 'special price' voor ons. Pas toen de prijs van 30 naar 5 JD was gedaald, wilde ik wel een ritje proberen, maar Nona kende het gehobbel al uit Marokko, dus die bleef aan de grond met de ...

... the remains of the aqueduct system. We pushed on and stumbled upon some archeologist's digging near the Soldier Tombs. A bit further on we came across a huge sign that said "Do not venture beyond this point, as it is not recommended, unless you have a guide or have a companion with you." Well we didn't have a guide but we had each other, and with the mountain at our backs we battled on deeper into the valley. Dino still oblivious to the fact that we ...

Today the tour took us to the insanely vast site of Petra. The place is huge, and walking through the Siq tothe treasury is worth the price of admission alone! It is very popular and as such the best photos without too many people can be obtained later in the day (when the light is better anyway). Also took in the Royal Tombs (had a geek out moment with the scene from Mortal ...

... I was spent and exhausted both physically and mentally. My tiredness is beginning to catch up to me and we have one more day here in Jordan to go and then off to Greece. We are really enjoying ourselves and traveling with my parents is actually fun and a bonding experience for us all. Tomorrow we will travel to two crusader era castles in Jordan and then get a tour of the city of Amman (capital of Jordan) and see some more local sights.

... nach Geldbeutel wahlweise einen Esel, ein Pferd oder ein Kamel chartern und sich darauf herumkutschieren lassen. Aber bei der Art, wie die Besitzer mit ihren Viechern umgehen, ist mir die Lust auf sowas gaenzlich vergangen... Den Rest der Zeit verbringe ich wie jeder andere Petra-Besucher in Wadi Musa. Wadi Musa ist ein beschauliches Staedtchen, errichtet an einem steilen Hang direkt vor dem Haupteingang zur Felsenstadt. Und eins steht fest: Wuerde es ...

... Siq and see the treasury well that's what you see except its not empty it is full of people and CAMELS!!!! When we finished walking through the siq we head down to the Old city there, there are lots of tombs beautifully carved into stone. My mom goes home from there and Isaac, dad and me stay behind. We walk towards the Monastery that is up on this huge hill we don't hike up it but we RIDE CAMELS!!!! Back to the Treasury. What crazy creatures they ...

... compared to the some in Africa who just act like animals. So I went back to the guy and asked him again and he said it could be here maybe at 9:30 instead then the Jordanian guy came in and had a go at me and asked me why I didn't believe him when he told me it wasn't coming! I dint know what he expects when clearly he was a bit dodgy so we didn't really know what to do and now he was getting his taxi driver mates involved. Me and Mark were clearly not suckers and ...

The highlight of our stay in Jordan was viewing the ancient city of Petra and climbing the fairly steep mountainous trail up to the Monastery. We even hummed the theme from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on our climb and entry into the city. It was fantastic!