Middle East Trip 2003: Syria | Lebanon | Jordan | Palestine The Palestinian-Israeli conflict Travelogue
Petra
The old cityyh of Petra is one of the wonders of Jordan. It's possible that some of the facades don't surprise the visitor due the number of times we have seen them in books and TV, but what always it's amazing is the natural beauty of this place, with and endless and incredible defile and large walls of arenaceous rock with multicolour veins. The dimensions of the place and difficult access to some of the monuments make the visit to Petra a complete experience.
Petra
Entrace of the Old City of Petra
Obelisk Tomb, was built in century I b.C.
The Siq is the path that connect the entrance with the Old City of Petra
Erosion is deleting some details carved in the rocks
The Siq
The Siq. Here was shot one of the Indiana Jones films
Yolanda in the Siq
The shade of the walls of the Siq, do easier the walk
Some walls of the Siq can be a height of 200 meters
The lenght of the Siq is 1,2 kilometers
The Siq of Petra
The Siq
At the end of the Siq, it could be guess one of the marvellous place of Petra
Treasury, also known in arabic as Al-Khazneh
Treasury was built to be a tomb of a nabataean king
Facades Street
Facades Street has more than 40 tombs
Yolanda, outside one of the tombs
Petra. Facades street
Camells resting near the Theater
Royal Tombs
The Theater had a capacity for 3000 people, and was carved in the rocks
Petra
Petra
One of the royal Tombs: Urn Tomb
Royal Tombs of Petra
Beginning of the Columnade Street of Petra
That remains of the Royal Palace
A camel waiting to be hire
David chatting with a camel
The Petra sand is red, blue, purple, etc
A view of the valley called Wadi ad-Deir
Another tomb of Petra
David near a red wall in Petra
Yolanda in Petra
And another tomb
Bedouins sell necklaces, pieces of coloured rocks, etc
The ascent to the Monastery is raised with a stair of about 800 steps
The top of the Monastery
The Monastery, also known in arabic as Al-Deir
The Monastery was used like a church during Bizantine period
The ascent to Monastery spend an hour. Thanks to the shade of the walls, the trip is more easy
Returning to the hotel, we walked through the Old City od Petra. Behind this, the Royal Tombs
Another facade of a tomb
Detail of one of the wall of the Siq
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