Beit Zaman Wadi Musa

... there is so much furniture, much of it non-functional. They place a fair size TV right at the corner of our bed which is sure to cause a hazard in the evening. Like the kind of rock me, baby, we don&#8217;t need. We quickly unplug it and move it to a neutral corner.<br><br>Petra itself is at an elevation of 1,200 m. (3,937 ft.) and is extremely hilly. The roads wind up and down and criss cross the many hills. Of course, the hotel is nowhere ...

... build homes and palaces, they built them right INTO the rock. Its pretty incredible.<br><br>I only had four hours so I moved quickly. Taking a brusque walk though the Siq (valley between high rock walls that leads to the main part of the city), I stopped only for a couple of pictures. All of a sudden, as I rounded a corner, I saw the famous treasury. I didn't expect it to be coming as it did, so it nearly made me fall backwards as I looked at it in all of its ...

... like in Egypt, you get a lot of people saying welcome to you in the street. Some of the men are still a bit sleazy but not in the same way as Egyptian men. Egyptian men were more up front and honest about their sleaziness whereas the sleazy Jordanian men i have encountered so far are just really arrogant and you have to watch what signals you're sending out because they need boundaries. Our local guide Zuhair is like this. Nice enough ...

... baying for my business? Nope, your every day taxi is in fact luxury limousine, hey I might watch the television flat screen whilst I head to my hotel, scores of shows to view easily paid for with the mobile credit card facility.... err this was a bit more advanced than I imagined it to be.<br><br>Arrived at hotel which was the middle eastern version of the "The Shining", hello, anyone here in this hotel apart from me ...

Bedouinen de gekste!!<br><br>We zijn net van Dana naar Wadi Musa gelift, omdat het natuurlijk weer eens vrijdag is.. Twee goedbedoelende arabieren probeerden ons voor 20 JD een louche auto aan te smeren, dus vluchtten we naar een stel Britten, die ons uit medelijden heeeelemaal naar de autoweg brachten, vanwaar we in 4 voertuigen en 1 kop thee zo in Petra waren..<br><br>[We zijn intussen gevoerd door de moeder en de broer van Ghassab, onze Duitssprekende host, en ...

... the museum larger statues were on show as well as artefacts including spice and oil bottles which carried oils like frankincense and myrrh. By this time it was 3pm and we had to make a decision to make the hike up the mountain to the 2nd main attraction of Petra &#8211; the monastery or leave till tomorrow. We decided to do it now as we may have not the time in the morning and we were so close now anyway. Donkeys (which get beaten with large sticks and iron bars) take ...

... feeling some nausea and had been bringing up daily. While she'd been poo-pooing it, it came to a head yesterday at the Turkish bath. She was really feeling lousy, and a doctor was called. We took her to a nearby clinic where they did some tests. Lo and behold, my wife, who is kind to creatures great and small, had picked up an amoeba- like parasite, and offered it refuge in her intestines. Likely due to having eaten some food like poorly-washed vegetables. Now for the good news ...

... oder drei Tage entscheiden, und zahlt 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 schlechthin! Das einzige, was einem den Besuch sonst noch versauen kann, sind die nicht enden wollenden Stroeme an Touristen, die vor allem Vormittags so ...

... red towering walls to either side. There were only a handful of people making their way through the siq on foot and we were able to capture a few moments where we were the only ones in sight. Then the moment arrived, we rounded the last corner and set eyes upon the glowing red stone of the treasury with maybe 200 other people milling about. Even with the people you can appreciate the spectacular setting and ancient architecture. The rest of the site is also amazing. The ...