Petra Travel Blogs - Page 5

Amazing 9 day trip around Jordan with my younger brother.

To travel is great!!

It's not that we weren't utterly exhausted from our 20 km trek through Petra the day before, because we were. But this was Petra! We had to head back. And so we did. We trudged the 2.5 km back down to the gate and headed in to Petra for our second day. This time, though, we were going to try…

Just some photos from my travels!

Setting off from Hong Kong in Aug 1992, 2 days after turning 22, I traveled China, Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, returning to Hong Kong in July 1993. Apart from Athens/Cairo, I never set foot on an airplane during this year-long walkabout. Before the days of digital cameras, internet, and mobile phones, this solo adventure was as much a discovery of myself as it was about these 31 countries. Many of them, like me, have long since changed.

various places

This Christmas and New Year I spend in magnificient place: Sharm El Shaik. I met there many fantastic person and saw many beauty place: -Kair -St. Katrine -Moses Mountain -Luxor -Betlejem -Jeruzalem -Petra ...

I have been egypt twice and loved it,Every one is very friendly and eager to help you out in the complex.In hurghada shop owners would try to get you in there shops any way possible,some of the men were grabby but fortunately i was not by myself.I would say its definitely not safe to go around by yourself.Hurghada was very old fashioned egypt as there were no women around the town.The complex in Taba however was more modern but was in the mountains which we had police escorts to get there.

And so to Petra (Rock in Greek, hence petrology), but first a quick and belated book review: Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything I was rather uncertain when approaching this book, but soon was hooked. It does exactly what it says on the tin, detailing the history of the universe an…

Camel rides, 4 x 4 trips, bedouin camps, climbing, sunsets.......and a traditional fire lighting method Ray Mears would be proud of!!

During May/June 2008, I took my first vacation to the Middle East area. Jordan was amazing - I got to see some historical sites such as Petra, Jesus' Baptism site, the Dead Sea and the Wadi Rum Desert. Then we moved on to Turkey where we saw the ancient Nemrut Dagi statues, the ruins of Ephesus, Oludeniz Beach (and some paragliding), Pamukkale white terraces, the famous rock formations of Cappadocia, and of course, the amazing city of Istanbul. The trip exceeded all expectations!

I made a roundtrip in Jordania in 2005

Amazing

My wife Bek and I flew into Cairo on Xmas day to pick up a tour a few days later. On the tour we visited Aswan, Luxor, the Red sea, the Dead Sea, Aquaba, Wadi Rum, Petra and a few other places before flying out of Amman

When the sun sets in the west...