Valley Stars Inn Wadi Musa

... be on the road quickly in this realitvely snmall country and after a relaxed ride on the highlands along the King's Highway we entered Wadi Musa, to visit the must-see sight of Petra.
We also choose to take 2 days to discover this widespread area of rock hewn temples and thombs and palaces, who were become famous not only of one of Indiana Jones filmmaking. A wonderfull palce to be, but unfriendly overpriced and also overrun at many palces!

... have any problems (at their outside bbq), but the first night they were a bit snooty. A few of us decided to walk around the city of Petra at night, but after 30 minutes of not finding much, we turned around. It is more a local town than for tourists, so there were only restaurants and grocery stores.

We had a 6:45 wake up call the following morning with a pretty good breakfast with real eggs. After we ate we headed out for our 8am stop at PETRA! The one ...

... but we had enough water and took lots of stops going up. A few minutes up the path some American tourists had abandoned the donkey ride up as it was so precarious on the paths and they were frightened of the donkey falling. Slowly we kept going and along the way were souvenir sellers and drink sellers all selling expensive stuff. Near the top I looked up and saw the top was further than I expected and I thought I can’t go up any more I am exhausted and just as ...

... great tourist destination, Jordanians rank up there with some of the friendlyest and there are a lot of things to see, its just a shame everything costs so much damn money!!

After a day of chilling where Nathan and I met many friends including Florence - a French girl I got an early night - well after I was put through the torture of everyone digging into a 4 pound buffett - deemed to expensive by me WHHHHYYYY!!! I had a shwarma instead - not quite the same.

Wadi Musa, Jordan stubo

... hours walking through the Petra site. It is an unreal experience, as you begin by walk roughly a mile through a narrow twisting multi-hued canyon floor. This ends at a juncture, the Treasury, as its known, which contains a building 43 meters high and 30 meters wide (1 meter =39 inches, for the Americans) and is entirely carved out of the rockface with intricate carvings depicting various goods and goddesses, sacred animals and other ritualistic symbology. Rooms are carved ...

... destroyed it. This first day as it was starting to get a bit late we decided to turn back after the Ampitheature as it was now about a 3-4km walk back out of Petra uphill, we'll be back tomorrow. When we got back our room was still not ready so we ended up getting ready for dinner in a friends room. After all of this our room was finally ready so we moved all just before we headed up for dinner. Well dinner tonight was buffet, Jordanian style and then afterwards we all watched Indiana ...

... the main collonnaded street, the theatre, ruins of two temples, the floor mosaics of the Petra Church and we climbed a rough staircase up a small mountain for an overall view of the site. Day two we spent 9 hours or so at Petra and climbed many steps and walked many km's. We went in an alternate entrance, through a different, narrower siq. We had this route to ourselves since it is a more difficult hike. We then took a ...

... I finally decided to go directly to Petra from Amman, leaving the visit to the crusaders temples and castles for Syria and Israel. In the microbus that is taking me to Wadi Musa, there is plenty of tourists, our backpacks taking up each and every free inch left in it, but nevertheless, the journey is quite pleasant and in roughly 4 hours we are at the destination. I have a lazy afternoon, reading and planning my days in Petra. The hotel ...

... la magie du site. Voilà pour les présentations. Petra m'a, pour plusieurs raisons, rappelé Karnak : l'aspect monumental de l'ensemble, la démesure qui semble en avoir motivé les artisans, mais aussi la conservation assez inégale de l'ensemble ou son absence certaine de vie. Le point fondamental sur lequel la "cité rose" rejoint cependant le "bordel egyptien" est bel et ...