Crowne Plaza Resort Wadi Musa

... buildings into the red-coloured sandstone and a lot of it is still left and allows the visitor to imagine the size and prosperity of the city. <br><br>Hermann actually found a lot of work to do around Petra since pooh bags haven't been introduced yet in the region and those donkeys, horses and camels seem to **** as much as their riders talk. Additionally, the number of threats for Hermann have increased dramatically: the requests to see, touch, buy (we were offered 18 Euros for ...

... the Middle East and the increase in tourism seems to recognize and emulate this fact.<br><br>What we notice immediately is how clean Aqaba is (garbage bins everywhere and people actually use them), how friendly the people are, how pedestrians have the right of way (unlike Cairo), and how they have a much more relaxed manner (compared to Egypt) when approaching you for a sale, or driving. It is such a better atmosphere and much more fun. We ...

... entered the area with the treasury in front of us I noticed the bedouins with their camels. One guy looked just like Johnny Depp in 'Pirates of the Carribean.' They wanted us to take the tour with them so bad. However, Hamdi grew up in Egypt and knew the cost of 45JAD was way too much. The tour would take you to the roman paths and around to all the sites and back. They continued with us for another km or so before they found another group of ...

... around the time of Christ by traders who controlled this part of the famous caravan trade route with the east where spices and other goods were bought and sold here. The town was well hidden in the mountains with just the narrow souq to enter by. The buildings were carved into the cliffs and became astonishing monuments and tombs for the rulers here. The souq carried water along it in carved channels into the sandstone and limestone cliffs. Water was life here and the ...

... lamb and chicken kebabs, various salads, rice and potatoes. The smell was intoxicating and as we relaxed at fire's edge, we were offered delicate glasses of sweet cardomon tea, a Bedouin tradition, and we were welcomed as their guests. We were then shown to our tents, which were made of goat hair, and were candlelit and cozy. The floors were carpets laid over warm soft sand, with a large comfy bed as the tents focal point. These were not your traditional camping-type tents--these ...

... up here. After admiring the building and the work that went into it (ok so we were just soo stuffed after climbing up here) we decided to make our way down. Man it is sooooo quick to get down no wonder why people were saying it's only 10mins. Once we were down we decided to go straight back to the hotel. I think we had walked about 26km so far and the day wasn't over!<br><br>After getting back to the hotel we decided that we would go and have a Turkish bath, what an experience. It was ...

Wenn irgend jemand nach Jordanien kommt, dann muss er einfach dorthin; manche kommen sogar nur aus diesem einen Grund: Petra. Petra ist eine ueber 2000 Jahre alte Felsenstadt, errichtet hauptsaechlich waehrend des 1. Jahrhunderts von den Nabataeern, mit vielen Einfluessen aus Ost (Persien) und West (Rom). Fast alle Gebaeude sind nicht freistehend, sondern aus dem leicht zu bearbeitenden Sandstein der Felswaende herausgemeisselt. Die Stadt profitierte vor ...

... the 19th century, Petra was only known to the local Bedouin. <br><br>The entrance to Petra is spectacular. The 1.2km As-Siq is the passageway shown in the Indiana Jones movie. It narrows to 2m and towers as tall as 200m overhead. You can still see some of the original channels cut into the sides of the siq that were used to bring water into the city. The As-Siq is not a canyon (a gorge carved out by water), but ...