Hedab Wadi Musa

... aus.<br><br>Auf dem Weg nach oben zur Monast**y v**kaufen an allen Ecken Bedouinen Schmuck und and**e Souvenire. Es dau**t nicht lange, da w**den wir beim vorbeilaufen von ein** Familie an ihrem Stand zum Tee eingeladen. Wir unt**halten uns, trinken Tee und haben jede Menge Spaß. Erik fängt an zu **zählen ich würde Photos für National Geographics machen...<br><br>An d** Monast**y gibts wied** Tee (diesmal gegen Bezahlung). Wir klett**n weit** nach oben auf einen Felsen, von wo man ...

... in the day (60 AD) when 40,000 Nabataeans lived there. We climbed up to the Royal Tombs, visited the old church to see the mosaic floor, wandered down the Roman Colonnade Street and around the Great Temple. Another 10JD buffet lunch and then we had the afternoon free to explore. In smaller groups we all climbed up to the Monastery, the second major site at Petra, and then slowly wandered our way back. I ended up buying some jewelry from one of ...

... terracotta pipes that were used to bring water into the city. The walk to The Monastery was very hot, and took about an hour with quite a hike up into the rocks, but was well worth it. On the second day, we entered Petra through the Wadi Mosa gorge which was a beautiful walk (minus the tour bus loads of people who all enter through the Siq) and it was really great to have the place to ourselves and silence!

... to see religions mix and worlds mingle. Several stores sold Muslim, Catholic, and Jewish items; men wearing kippot strolled through the Catholic Quarter; children with crosses around their necks purchased orange juice from a vendor in the Jewish Quarter. Yet beyond those walls, it's not necessarily the same story.<br><br>After 4 days, we were ready for an 'escape' from the family and the Old City. We awoke at 2:00am for a drive to Masada, a "B.C" era ...

... poser cette question primordiale: je peux y aller en maillot de bain et torse nu sans risquer de me faire lapider? Apparemment oui, d'autres le font. Par contre pour certaines ce sera tout habillé, il y' a des maris moins tolérants. Le problème avec la mer morte c'est que de se baigner dedans est effectivement très amusant mais ca peu faire très mal si un peu de mer morte vous rentre dans les yeux et la mer morte quand elle sèche sur votre peau ...

... of the necropolus so this is really a burial tomb for a really well-off person. This was awesome and this was only the tip of the iceberg as we didn't really know that Petra was a massive city, looks like there is a whole heap of walking to do over the next few days. After taking heaps of photos of this one building we were going deeper into the old dead city of Petra. This place has all these amazing (sorry for using the word so much but I don't know anything else to use) tombs all ...

... like I had truly accomplished something.<br><br>From the monastery, we could see several Jordanian flags at various points above us. We decided to press forward and came to a sign for "The View to the End of the World." How can anybody resist a come-on like that? So we went to see the end of the world.<br><br>It turns out you can see Israel from there.<br><br>When we put two and two together, what with Aaron's tomb glistening from a nearby peak and knowing that we were looking ...

... best known to Dave and I from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie. The city is carved into the rock wall by the Nabataens- I think the timeline is around 6th century BC onwards, Pre-Roman. The ruins excavated are mostly tombs, with a few temples and a church as well. The tombs are all empty inside except for a few carvings and loculi (graves) and some are home to the bedouin who live in Petra. To reach the start of the ...

... killing me after walking for 5 hours. Petra itself has more sights that I imagined and it was awsome just walking around and seeing it all, all the litte caves in the rock and the grand buildings carved into the rocks. I am going back tomorrow to do more sightseeing. Again like Wadi Rum it is hard to describe it but you should defiantly see the photos as some of them are good and gives you a general idea of it. I am off now to eat a 4 Dina all you can eat salad and BBQ.

Decided last night not to go to Wadi Rum as it sounds a bit awkward going by myself and potentially expensive. What I should have done is gone straight to Wadi Musa where the ancient city of Petra is with the Koreans and Japanese, as it would have saved me a lot of money, and organized a tour there. So instead what I did was to head to the minibus station in Aqaba at 7 in the morning. Got some cash out of the ATM and no problem so hopefully that visa issue has been resolved. <br><br ...