Sofitel Petra Taybet Zaman Wadi Musa

... seem that bad. However, after we climbed the 1 hour trail up to the monastery, we forked out about 10 CDN for a coke and an ice tea...fully worth it though in the midday heat!! I like Jordan so far. Of course, we have spent most of our time in areas away from society here. I did almost lose my sunglasses though, but local workers found them and gladly held on to them until I returned looking for them where I last had them, free of charge nonetheless ...

Left Amman and headed for Madaba and Mt Nebo. At Madaba I visited an old Greek Orthodox church where there is a mosaic on the floor featuring a map of the old holy land. Then drove to the top of Mt Nebo and stood where Moses was said to have been shown the promised land. You can see Jerusalem and jericho as well as the Dead Sea from the top. Then drove to Wadi Musa to ...

... you walk through a beautiful siq (which looks like a canyon, but is actually one block of rock shoved apart) for over 1 km. You have 200 m rock walls towering over you and sometimes the walls are only a few metres apart. Finally you come around a curve and catch your first look at the Treasury. It is the most famous building in Petra, the best preserved and it really is breath-taking. It was built as a tomb but apparently ...

... copper refining, and of course stone carving. Out of the "rose stone" the Nabataeans carved enormous structures and tombs. With so many different influences from all the trade business, they carved and decorated these structures with Classical Graeco-Roman motifs such as pediments and Corinthian columns but would also use Egyptian obelisks in the decoration as well. Earthquakes and eventual domination by the Roman Empire in 106 AD ...

... 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 an

... they did with them in the evening/night. Only to tell you in the next sentence they shaved for the first time yesterday. I wrote and send countless romantic messages to women I never met for friends who can not read or write English, but want to stay in touch with their "girlfriends". I spend many evenings learning Arabic. I am doing pretty well with reading and writing already, and slowly my vocabulary starts to grow. Anyone wants advice on how to best learn a ...

... J'ai pris un rythme modeste pourtant, confiant envers les vertus du temps (celui qui avait si bien redressé le bilan de Louxor) ; je n'ai jamais fait qu'errer entre d'impressionnantes masses rocheuses dont l'absence criante de vie annihilait tout possibilité d'émouvoir (c'est un peu lourd). Ma visite fut tout de même élevée par quelques longs moments paisibles ; le ...