Grand View Resort Petra Wadi Musa

... pretty fun.
By the time we made it back to the van it was too late to go to the castle we had planned on seeing. I didn't care. I would have been happy to stay the night. However, the kids had enough. They were hot, tired and hungry. We went straight back to the hotel.
Dinner was at the same restaurant as the night before. "The Spring Days" restaurant. One the way there I was able to visit with my Deaf friend at the juice stand. On our way ...

... western style toilets. I don't even require toilet paper to be included, the toilet doesn't need to flush, it can run, i don't even care; i just need a seat!

Today i'm going to see the lost city of Petra. The rest of my tour saw it yesterday on a guided tour but i stayed behind at the hotel and rested and slept because i was feeling really unwell and was not up to the massive amount of heat and walking that was involved in ...

... in de vroegte om 6u was het opeens licht, en werd ik wakker van een stel randdebielen die de marathon van Petra aan het rennen waren! Zeg nou zelluf!

De ochtend was wat verwarrend. 's Nachts was de politie naar verdwaalde toeristen komen vragen, en nu ging Ghassab dus op illegale toeristen-jacht (je moet betalen voor Petra, en veel ook, maar anders mag je dr dus ook niet door de achterdeur in..). Hassan zou ons naar huis rijden, ware het niet dat de ...

... of Petra.
On our second day we walked up to the High Place of Sacrifice another 45 minute walk with views of the valley. We were the first people to make it to the top that day and we had the whole place to ourselves. We started to head back the way we had come, when a local lady coming up to set up her stall and said if we go the other way we would see more sights and it was prettier. So off we headed, and without seeing any sights for a while Dino ...

... d'irréductibles à entrer sur le site vers 6h pour en profiter seul puis rentrer vers midi au village pour manger, faire la sieste et prier avant de revenir le soir vers 18h quand tout le monde s'en va et que le soleil couchant donne une couleur rouge magnifique aux façades.

Pour les repas nous nous empiffrons habituellement de hummus, une sorte de purée de poix avec de l'ail et du citron, de tabbouleh et de felafel, boules de légumes mixés ...

... facade in the rock...the only thing I can say is I was breathless and speechless (imagine that!). I wish so much that I could post pictures along with this as I write to show you the beauty of this place...but unfortunately this business center will not go lax on their Internet security settings. As you walk through the valley you see other amazing carvings into the rock...how the hell did they do it. There is soo much to ...

... zum einzigen freistehenden Gebaeude Petras, dem Qasr Al-Bint, bevor es eine Stunde lang steil bergauf zum zweitschoensten Gebaeude der Staette geht: Ad-Deir, das Kloster. Das sieht etwa genauso aus wie das Schatzhaus, ist nur nicht so dekadent verziert. Es liegt gleich neben ein paar Aussichtspunkten, von denen man aus Blick auf das Wadi Araba, dem Grenzverlauf zwischen Jordanien und Israel, hat. Hinzu kommt noch eine alte Kreuzfahrerburg, eine zweite ...

... special just a really gross town. Our hotel is really cute and we get mango juice and coffee. We get put into a little room with really cozy beds. We have a couple of hours before we eat dinner so we ask the guy at the desk to recommended a restaurant. It was ok could have been better. So we decide to go to Petra to just get the lay of the land. We walk for about 10 minutes to the gate there we have to choose to walk down to the entrance of the siq ...

... going. I told him we were going to Petra on the bus and he got out his phone and called the driver so he says, he came back to me and told me that the bus was not coming today as he could not make it, my natural yeah right thoughts which experience teaches you came into play and he started to tell me how he could help me with transport or any tours and gave me his card. Some of the touts are dodgy so you have to just be on guard but here they are easy to deal ...

... free lift back to the hostel. Covered so many miles today. Good workout and I got to experience Petra again so a very good day all round.

Booked myself onto an overnight trip to Wadi Rum (huge protected Desert Park) including 6 hour jeep drive, food, bed and breakfast the next morning. Jumped at the chance, quite a good deal. Up at half 5 in the morning tomorrow but another late night talking away. Shame I can't have a beer. Would have been a just reward for a long day.