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The WC with canyon views and a wonder of the world
Our next destination was Petra. We took the "Kings Highway" a journey through an extraordinary canyon and desert landscape including the "Grand Canyon of Jordan" Wadi Mujib. You don't see many buildings but one enterprising Bedouin has established a coffee stop and you can gaze at the canyon looking down from a western style flush toilet …
Floating, Romans and a Nation of Shopkeepers.
This blog is being published after my return home due to very limited internet access on the trip. Some was written on the trip and some afterwards
I can't say I'm glad to be back in the Middle East, its not my favorite part of the world, but I've now been about 5 times and there is a certain pleasing familiarity to it. In the cities the …
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Petra the Rose City
... centre. These are decorated with statues which have eroded but are still visible.(see phots). I had to sit and admire it for sometime. but this is only the start of this amazing complex. At its height 26,000 people lived in the caves and worshipped at the temples carved from the rock. These temples also served to be the tombs of the Kings and Nobles. In 106 AD the Romans took over and there are remains of a large Roman temple and remnants ...
The Beautiful City of Petra
... long hard stair case up to the Altar of Sacrifice. Well everybody goes straight to the main strip so up the stairs it was. Walking up stairs in Petra is hard work as they are very old and very worn away but if you want to see as much as possible then it has to be done. At the top you get a great view of everything else as the altar is placed at the highest point. That did mean it was also back down the other side to pass the carvings and then looping back ...
Petra Redux
... could as the stairs got stepper and steeper. We stopped for a rest in some shade and a British couple stopped to rest with us. They looked just as knackered as we were. Good- it wasn’t just us then J
Up, up we go- past the Bedouin ladies selling jewellery, stopping to let donkeys with tourists go up or down (I feeling pretty envious by this point- should have taken the stupid donkey!!!). Now we are informed by a smiling Bedouin lady we are half way up. ...


