Candles Hotel Wadi Musa

Destination 386

km192'360

After getting cash at Aqabat's tricky ATMs (handle it like a slot machine at Vegas: maybe you get something...), we left to visit the magnificent sight of Wadi Rum. Perfect roads, friendly and relaxed people and fair entry prices showed us, that it is possible to be in a fair country in middle east. We camped in front of a breathtaking scenery of desert mountain range.

The day after we realised ...

... following day. After a brief hike we headed to our hotel, Petra Diamond, which was a little low on the quality rating but worked good enough. Dinner was at the hotel this night and the high floor restaurant provided great views of the valley and sunset with a pretty decent meal to go along with it. Some of the waiters at this hotel were pretty snobby and yelled at people for bringing in their own water instead of buying it there. Dinner the next night we did ...

... up the steps of the cliff to the site if you are willing to pay for it. We used our own steam and began the hour long hike up the mountain while watching tourists on donkeys go up the narrow paths. I had earlier seen a poor horse with its front legs all grazed and bleeding after a fall and could see that it was so easy to injury an animal if it tripped on these dusty slippery paths with sheer drops down into gullies. It was awfully hot and hard work walking up into the ...

The bus to Petra took 2 hours and had great cliff side views over Jordan. We got into Wadi Musa village and found a good cheap place to stay - Valentines. We just chilled for our 1st day here. Jordan is very expensive! The Dinar is almost the equivelent of the pound and so I am living like a poor man to get by. Eating bread and processed cheese etc just to get by. Petra is the most expensive place in Jordan but it is shocking how expensive everything is here. BUT it is such ...

... it's quite common in these parts, and easily treated with medication. So, as in Croatia and her finger infection a few years back, Bonnie has given us an opportunity to experience the Jordanian medical system. Turns out it's pretty good. The doctor was a kind man, who makes house calls from his clinic, and was very sensitive to our needs as people passing through. Today, Bonnie was notably better already, and she should continue to improve.

As for today, we spent a full ...

... into the mountains. There are some small ones and big elaberate ones with paintings on the walls bit like the Egyptians in some mountains there are few stories on tombs with tombs carved into the moutain a few levels high. We finally made it through the Necropolis and into the Acopolis (city of the living) and to the Ampitheature which was a roman sort of theatre. There isn't much left of the Acropolis as most of it was built from wood and stones and there was a couple of huge earthquakes ...

... the treasure of an Egyptian pharoah hidden inside- some locals have actually tried shooting at the top urn to try to break it open and get the treasure. The sandstone rock of the city is multi-coloured: reds, pinks, yellows, browns, purples, all swirled together in some areas. And the Treasury itself appears pink at certain times of the day. On our first day in Petra we took in the Treasury, the royal tombs- majestic but very ...

... els turistes) i pujar al Jebel Jumm al'Amr per fruir d'unes magnifiques vistes del Tresor (segurament el monument mes retratat de Petra). Ja se que haura d'escriure extensament sobre Petra, pero es que no hi ha paraules: l'arquitectura, els colors tant de les roques com de les magnifiques postes de sol, el silenci quan es pon el sol i la majoria de turistes ja son a l'hotel, les increibles passejades que es poden fer. Es sens dubte un dels llocs que cal visitar ...

... br>Got to Wadi Musa where the tourists stay to visit Petra at the bottom of the hilly and steep town. Hopped out and saw the French couple who were on the ferry who recommended a hotel -booked myself in for 3 nights. Got some food then headed down to Petra.

Quite expensive for a 2 day pass and no student discount. But one of the most amazing places I've been to in my life. Better than the pyramids in my opinion. Again, very difficult for me to describe it and to do justice ...

... rocheuses au coeur desquelles furent creusées tombes, monuments et autres surprises nabathéennes. On parcourt l'ensemble du site de manière assez poussive, l'entrée de la vieille ville ne se situant qu'après le Siq, long passage obligatoire. Petra nécessite donc une certaine force, un courage comme une abnégation qui, semble-t-il, favorisent la sensibilité du visiteur ...