Hedab Wadi Musa

... comes in to focus.

The Treasury itself is huge, very huge. So large that the door is the height of most houses. The carvings are very well preserved in that only some of the statues are faded away and the urn at the top is damaged from people shooting at it with guns in the early years. The story goes there was a rumor that these sites contained gold, since the people buried were often buried with their treasure to use in the next life, and that shooting ...

Keeping up with tradition I have now lost something on this trip. Usually I lose something quite inconsequential, like a t-shirt.... this time my sunglasses have gone walk about. It really sucks to be travelling around the sunniest, hottest place on the planet with no sunglasses. The last couple of days I have developed an eagle-eye squint – my ...

... to see it from childhood before the place became as famous as the site of the Indiana Jones movie. I was impressed by it and was surprised it was such a huge area and so much work had gone into building it. We still had plans to return in the morning as we had a 2 day pass for the site. We got a taxi back to the hotel where we had a wonderful shower and bagged up our filthy clothes till we could get room and bathroom to wash them. Our spot on the roof was to be shared ...

... although I felt VERY bad about leaving Florence up in the mountains with the Bedwin (sometimes a very shady group of people) she didnt want to go and I couldnt make her so I ran down and after the 1.5km down, 3km accross, 3km siq and then grabbed a taxi to save my poor legs the climb back up to Valentines. I arived just in time to catch the tail ends, I ate, Nathan said he was off in the morning (he missed all the best stuff) and then I slept - I was exhausted.

Wadi Musa, Jordan stubo

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Well, it's time to conclude now. Tomorrow, at 9 we board yet another local bus taking us to the Jordan-Israel border, with Eilat as our destination. There, we intend to rest up for a few days of fun on the Mediteranean before we continue our journey north to the Dead Sea and beyond. The adventure continues.

All the best, and once again, we love your feedback, expecially since it's been so positive! Seriously, thanks for the contact--we're beginning to get a little homesick.

... taking off and left the donkey and kid in our dust as we weren't going to wimp out and take the easy way up. After quite a long time and more arduous kms we finally arrived up at the top and there we could see it in the distance......the high alter of sacrifice. When we finally we got there we had to stop to catch our breath so we sat down on what appeared to be seats. Just thinking that a few thousand years ago there would have been people like us that would have hiked up here and sat ...

... Reserve. We began by hiking up to the High Place of Sacrifice- more steps! There are some altars there but the best part is the views of the royal tombs from above. Hiking back down a different way we passed by many more interesting tombs and monuments. Finally we spent a little more time at the treasury- definetly the highlight of Petra for both of us- before hiking back up to the gate (everything seemed to be uphill at Petra).

Got woken up at the camp around 7ish. Went to bed at half 9 but still really tired. Breakfast was ready and I had pitta-like Bedouin bread and some jam with tea. One of the Korean girls had gone for a walk and as soon as we had finished breakfast we had to leave to get back in time for our bus back to Wadi Musa /Petra. But one person down. Girl gone out into the desert by herself. Marvelous stuff. So we jumped into the jeep and drove out to find ...

... pass as there's so much to see. Saved some stuff for tomorrow. So expensive inside the place though and Wadi Musa for that matter. Can of Coke costs 2 dinar! I knew it was going to be expensive but I was still pretty taken aback. Difficult to have come from such a cheap country and suddenly pay inflated prices. Did however, keep in earshot of a tour group so I got a free tour of the place for part of the afternoon. Swings and Roundabouts.....

Got a free shuttle service ...

... les "good price!" des bédouins ambulants, n'ont guère marqué. Une foule immense et la sensation malaisée de ne faire que passer, bon. Il y a pourtant eu de jolies choses, notamment hier : je quittai l'hôtel après une nuit seulement, résolu à ne plus subir les 90mn de marches en montée qui séparaient la vieille ville de mon hôtel (l'on comprend maintenant pourquoi, la ...