Petra Travel Blogs

I’d like to say we woke up around 6AM Thursday morning, but the truth is we weren’t ever truly asleep.  It was still windy as all get out, but a gentle breeze compared with last night, and at least the sun was shining.  The camp was a shambles, but our Bedouin hosts still laid out…

  It was once again an early rise to go to Petra at dawn. This time Alessandro had joined us for an alternative route into the lost city. Obviously if you visit Petra only for a day, there is only way route into the city, and that is via the Siq. Period. It's one of the coolest things you'll…

[ Owing to the loss of my camera in Egypt, photos for this entry since donated through the generosity of travel pals Cameron & Nicole.  I thank you both! ] The Jordan Gang (Nicole, Cameron, Kylie, Thu & I) all leave for Petra as early as possible today in Nic & Cam's hire car.&nbs…

We slept in a little this morning (because yesterday's hike wore us out), and went down to grab breakfast in the dining area of the hostel.  After breakfast, we thought it a good idea to head back down to the market to grab some more food for lunch.  We then returned to the hostel and got…

Back in Amman, the hostel that I stayed had arranged private excursion to Madaba. I was planning to overnight in Madaba because there were quite a few things to do and to see in the north part of Jordan. One of them was floating in the Dead Sea. In the morning Yousef the taxi driver agreed for 20 D…

Visiting Petra is really exciting, though its only 15-20% excavated, the area offers an extravagant view.

Petra is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor n a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Lu…

Visiting Petra was a long wished dream come truth. Walking The Siq, first sight of Khazneh (Treasury), visiting the Royal Tombs, climbing up to the Monastery. Very, very beautiful. See the photo's :-)

During Christmas and NYE I spend my time in Jordan. It was my first time there and I loved it and didn't want to leave. I took about 500 pictures, but I wont show them all haha. I'll wright my journal later, first it's time to show some pictures!!

Guidebooks, magazine articles, and other tourists wax on and on about Petra. “If you only go to one place in Jordan, it had better be Petra…” and so on and so forth. So today we finally got to see what all the fuss is about. We were not disappointed!The ancient city of Petra was literally car…

Before I came to Petra I was told it would be an amazing sight but to go there as early as possible because of the heat. Furthermore I had heard everyone going there would come back broken because of hiking all day in the heat and the sun burning down from the sky.   I got to Petra…

I have been travelling around the Middle East for a couple of weeks now and have finally gotten two days off. What to do, oh what to do? Well for me the no. 1 thing was to get to Petra but I was not sure how to do so, how long it would take, or how much it would cost.   Research show…

The Treasury at Petra. The ancient city of Petra is about two hours North of Aqaba. 2000 years ago Petra was a refuge for nomadic Nabateans who travelled North from Arabia. From a few caves in a rocky outcrop they created Petra as…

On my day off in Jordan we went to Petra for the day. It's takes about 3 days to see it all. I think I'll have to come back

Up late 10.30 breakfast. Not feeling goodLittle Petra, Wadi at the back - lizardNeolithic houses, sellers of postcardsChilled at Talal'sDrove towards desertCamped out, chicken, vegswolf/dogUp at 4.45 ouch!minibus wankerChris, Yank and us got offBus to turn, van to camp