Our legs are tired! Walking 20k in one day is not something we are used to. But it was so worth it. We had planned on visiting Little Petra today, but our driver told us that it takes only about one hour to do that and that we could combine it with our excursion to Wadi Rum that is planned for Thursday. So basically, we had a day off - which isn't all that bad! We took a cab to go downtown to see if we could do some kind of shopping. We weren't there very long. Jordan is a pretty poor country, almost like what we had seen in Africa. The downtown itself was very much local stuff. You would walk by shops where you could see chicken in cages (they would be dinner for someone later on that night), and goats and sheep (dead and skinned) hanging by a hook above the sidewalk. Not exactly your Zehrs or Sobeys! So we walked back to our hotel (it was all downhill!!), but stopped in a few places once we got to "tourist street". We spent the rest of the afternoon by the pool, reading and sleeping. It was actually very nice. Before dinner, we went for a drink to a pub; there are only two places in Petra that serve alcohol - that pub and the other one is the Movenpick hotel next to ours, which is where we've had every dinner so far!!
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| Just like "Goldilocks and the three Bears"; which one will she choose? |
More pics from Petra!
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| The canyon going in, called the Siik - the path to Petra |
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| The Treasury |
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| The theater; it could seat 7000 persons! |
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| The temple |
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| We're not having so much fun on the way up. |
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| The Monastery |
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| Going up into the Temple - or what's left of it |
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| Multiple tombs |
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