Petra Inn Hotel Wadi Musa

... our "You have to be like kidding me, put the bus microphone down before we kill you" club. Beginning to wonder if tour will be a nightmare. However improvement is made when we reach one of the biggest Roman city (yes Roman city) ruins I have seen. We enjoy the delightful Arab Bagpipe player's version of Auld Lang Syne in the stone Auditorium, no I do not jest nor have slipped into alternative universe. I have accpeted that If you are Scottish bagpipes will ...

... vervolgens moesten we weer naar boven, naar ons dorp. Gelukkig was het spits, dus kregen we op een gegeven moment een lift op een donkey aangeboden van een dorpsbewoner! Jay!

Ghassab en Atallah waren kwijt, dus hebben we bij Atallah ingebroken, en nu zitten we lekker gedouchet te internetten, tot Atallah ons komt voeren.. This is the life..!

Ow, en Ghassab googlet zichzelf graag, dus bij dezen: hi Ghassab! Es war supertoll bei dir im Bedouinendorf!

... mastered the skill of saving and channelling water for themselves. The surrounding rock walls are many coloured with reds, yellows and browns all making beautiful patterns in the cliffs and the buildings also captured these colours. The defining icon of the treasury was stunning and displayed Greco Roman influences as it has vases carved and columns and was so high being 38m tall carved into the Cliffside with huge rooms carved out inside. Apart from anything 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 ...

Well this morning after a wonderful sunrise that lite up the desert like a golden sea we packed up our gear had some breakfast and we back in the Jeeps heading out of the Wadi Rum area. Once back at the gates we boarded our bus for one of the most anticipated places for the whole trip, Petra! After about an hour on the bus we stopped and had a look at a wonderful national park where they are growing back the forrests that use to grow in this area of the world. Before the Ottomans arrived ...

... ride hawkers. Alas, the building is empty. Tearing ourselves away, we headed along the path past all the other sites mentioned, admiring the scale and colors and logistics of the whole thing. At intervals along the way, vendors set up shop, selling jewelry and souvenirs, and donkeys, camels, and horses came and went, carrying tourists. At the end, we elected to make the climb high up the mountain (we were told it was 950 steps, but I counted 770 very exhausting ...

... out at different times. We ended up sleeping with earplugs. The hotel manager of the Cleopetra was friendly, but our room was very small and the bathroom even smaller. You had to step up to enter, when sitting on the toilet your knees hit the wall and a foot away was the open shower- which meant that most of the bathroom got wet when using the shower. Now on to the good part about Wadi Musa- Petra. An ancient city, before ...

... into the rocks that are just enormous and hard to describe - seeing is believing and the pictures don't do it justice. The two most famous sites are called The Treasury and The Monastary. The Treasury is the first monument that you come to after hiking a mile through a rock canyon, and it seems to appear out of nowhere. To get to the Monastery you have to hike up a pretty steep trail for about an hour, but the sight of the facade at the ...

... was to many tourists there so I didn't take many photos of it but it was immense thats for sure, I have become hard to please now with sights as I am getting more picky but this was awsome. From there we headed out to the other sights which is quite alot to see. There are old buildings carved into the rock all of different levels of decay and also a heathery which is good. We ended up going to the monastery on top of a hill which was quite a walk and my legs are ...