Petra Moon Hotel Wadi Musa

... possibly need in our bulging bags. We arrived before noon at Wadi Musa. We take a taxi from the bus stop to the Petra Moon Hotel for another 5JD. Our room costs 30JD with bath and breakfast. Our hotel is only about 500 meters from the entrance to ...

... ? It's a bit like Ha Long Bay...words and pictures just don't do it justice. We spent the past 4 days in Wadi Musa, which is the town next to Petra. Petra is one of the 7 Wonders of the World--it's the place Indiana Jones gallops on horseback through the ...

... We pulled into town as the sun was sinking, dropping Manuela and Kerstin at their hotel and driving on to find ours. The Petra Moon Hotel is very close to the entrance to Petra. They were offering a Petra by Moonlight tour that night for JD12. We ...

Today we are leaving Amman and head out to Petra. First stop is Mount Nebo. On top of Mount Nebo you are looking at the Jordan Valley. Not so far in the distance Israel. Mount Nebo is famous as the final burial ground of Moses. Pope John Paul II ...

... for gas and then some water and juice but the ride was otherwise uneventful. The Movenpick is a spectacular five star hotel just outside the entrance to Petra. We had coffees and a scoop of delicious ice cream in the lobby.   We took a short walk ...

... we all climbed up for photographs. After about 2 hours in the desert we reluctantly left and made the way to our hotel in Wadi Musa Our rooms were spacious and looked fairly palatial compared with the other places we had staid. We had dinner and those ...

... headed back to Amman by bus after our beer. I went back to my hotel and took a hot (!) shower and watched TV (!). The only English channel is CNN, but I drank it up as though it were cool water. I slept early and comfortably. Thanks Petra Moon ...

... a cool sunset from the hotel and ate the buffet which became dinner for the next couple of days there. The actually town is not in Petra, its in Wadi Musa which is 15 minutes walk away or 1 jd (2 bucks) in a taxi. Next day i decided to head out with the ...

... a couple of meters in front of  the car. And so, feeling like silly little girls we turn back to spend another night in Wadi Musa. Oh yes, I also missed to mention a flat tire we had to have fixed for the outrageous fee of 0.5 Jordanian Dinar. That's ...

... I could see why the Wadi Rum is the quintessential desert.  Once arriving in the town of Wadi Musa, just outside Petra we checked into the Cleopetra hotel.  Dusty after our long days travel, we quickly freshened up, and proceed to Petra by ...

... the precision of a fine watch! (sorry I couldn't help the Swiss joke). We have a day in Rum and will be dropped in Wadi Musa ready for Petra the next day. Good sense for Benni and co and with a combo of the full moon and the amount of desert time I've ...

... . But I digress, I guess...not really this trip is about learning and thinking.  When we arrived in Wadi Musa, the gateway city to visit Petra, we went to the Cleopetra Hotel, which is recommended in wikitravel.org and was recommended by the guy at ...

... , but we get there We stroll through Wadi Musa village looking for a hotel or hostel, and decide to stay at midrange Petra Moon Hotel, its about 200m from Petra visitor centre where the entrance is, decent-ish room, LP wasn't accurate on pricing, but I ...

... highlight of Jordan, for Jamie, would never have happened had we not been traveling the way we do. Wandering around the town of Wadi Musa by herself, she encountered a woman in front of her home and said "Salaam Alaykum" the woman invited her inside, ...

... . So we bypassed Jerash in favor of Petra and the desert to the South. By the time we arrived in Wadi Musa, the tiny hotel town outside of Petra, it was evening and too late to pay the expensive entrance fee to the site. Our hostel's owner, Mohammed, ...

... araba. we had tea and listened to a man playing the beduion guitar on the edge of this immense hostil wilderness!!!!! super cool. Wadi Musa to Wadi Rum The next day a 1 hour taxi ride took us through miles and miles of rocky, hilly, barren desert ...

... , we jumped in the minibus and headed to St. Katharine's Monastary for the climb up Mt. Sinai (or Gebel Musa as it's known locally). Above our heads was a full moon in all it's glory, and the air was fresh and the silence was eerie. Onwards and upwards as ...