Candles Hotel Wadi Musa
Po Box 181, 200M Off The Entrance of Petra Wadi Musa, Jordan
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Last Crusade
... from Damascus to Arabia and the spice and silk camel caravans passed through paying taxes and protection money.
You enter Petra through a narrow ' Siq' with towering cliffs on either side. In places it is only a few metres wide, with the morning sun catching the top of the cliffs and throwing golden light into the floor below. Impossible to capture this in a photo. The Siq continues for almost 2 k's and then you get a glimpse of The ...
Petra
... up from the Monastery you can view the Dead Sea on a clear day. We didn’t get that far.
At the top, across from the Monastery, is a drink stand that sells the most delicious freshly squeezed orange juice and hot tea with fresh mint. Spend the Dinar, get the drink and sit facing the Monastery to take it all in. Then down the 900 steps you go. It’s really not that bad – I’ve done all 5 towns in Cinque Terra, Italy, ...
Indiana Jones....
... as Indiana Jones did, to the absolute gorgeous Treasury. We stood in awe. Even now we get chills thinking about it. The rose coloured stone and the beautiful carvings are exquisite and nothing like what we've seen thus far. We eventually moved on to the rest of Petra which is equally as jaw-dropping as the Treasury. It was so interesting to learn about the city, its Roman and Greek influences, and to imagine what it would have looked back ...
Petra
... patterns, but it was rock. Until Tarek pointed out to us that there were Nabtean and Roman aqueducts. And Roman cobblestones. And some Nabtean carvings in the walls. Even so, I most certainly would not have recognized this as a city, even while standing in it. I can understand how it went undiscovered for so long.
At the back of the canyon was a Nabtean necropolis, where they buried people under these carved "stairways to heaven." At the very ...
Petra : la cité rose
... un petit café bédouin improvisé, à observer durant une heure cette porte du Trésor. Une œuvre parfaite. Comment ont-ils fait pour façonner des colonnes cylindriques si symétriques? Des frises en hauteur détaillées, des statues opposées identiques et une urne centrale proportionelle à tout ce qui précède? Lorsque nous regardons les rochers voisins, imparfaits dans leur forme, nous nous demandons ce qui a pu poussé les Nabatéens à les travailler pendants des décennies. À ...



