Petra

Jordan is my most favourite place on the planet, and one of the absolute must-do's is to visit Petra. However, once you have arrived at The Treasury at the end of the spectacular ravine walk, here are a couple of tips to make the rest of Petra really worthwhile.
Tip 1. Catch the donkey wagon and hire a horse. It's much grander and larger than can be possibly be done on foot and so most people don't get to venture much past the sites at the entrance.
Tip 2. Don't go in summer! It's extraordinarily hot and dry in summer. Best time is November to February.
Tip 3. Carry your own food, water and toilet paper. There isn't much available once in Petra and it's all too expensive.
Tip 4. Spent time talking with the Bedouin boys who will follow you around. They are fluent in almost any language you can think of.
Tip 5. Do wear modest clothing. Just cause it's hot don't insult the locals by stripping down to your tank top and shorts.
Tip 6. It's worth staying in a hotel nearby to get an early morning start or even stay an extra day if you have time.
Tip 7. Be prepared to pay a hefty entrance fee unless you have a Jordanian passport.
Tip 8. Take extra film memory cards and batteries. You WILL take more photos than you can possibly imagine.
Tip 9. Make sure you eat the local schwama at the end of the day. Arab food tastes so much better with the rose dust of the desert still in your sneakers.

If you just want a simple short piece of advice: I stayed at Le Méridien Amman. LET the concierge hire you a taxi to take you down to Petra. The taxi driver was amazing. He gave us the history of Jordan, knew of all the no kidding good places to go for food and bathhouses. It really was like we were his family. Point is when in Jordan and you hire a driver like this, he's more than just a driver, he's a tour guide, and want nothing more than for you to have the most wonder time in his country. If you want I have a picture of the taxi driver and will email it to you or check out my blog where I can post more pictures. I am positive anyone who is in the hotel buisness in Jordan knows this guy.
If you are in Jordan, you simply MUST see Petra. Stop along the way and visit a Turkish bathhouse, and get a try a local place for lunch before you even get to Petra. I would save the bathhouse for after the tour of Petra though. It's a good after hike message, but be prepared to hurt in a good way ;)

Somewhere you have to visit and experience yourself.
Jordan itself has so much to offer, extending far beyond just Petra, but Petra alone could justify the visit.

Located amid rugged desert canyons and mountains in what is now the southwestern corner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Petra was once a thriving trading center and the capital of the Nabataean empire between 400 B.C. and A.D. 106.

The city sat empty and in near ruin for centuries. Only in the early 1800s did a European traveler disguise himself in Bedouin costume and infiltrate the mysterious locale.

Amazing views for the City that a must to see!!!

IM sure u will love it!

PETRA

Soul-stirring, ‘Rose Red City’ of Petra, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Petra is the legacy of the Nabataens, an industrious Arab people who settled here more than 2,000 years ago. For centuries the Nabataen Kingdom endured, until the Roman Emperor Trajan annexed the kingdom. By 16th century Petra was lost to the west. After 300 years, in 1812, a Swiss Traveller rediscovered it.
Petra’s appeal comes from its spectacular setting inside a narrow desert gorge. From the main entrance, you walk into the chasm(or siq), that ripped through the rock in a prehistoric quake. The cliffs walls soar to 80 metres. You pass insciptions in ancient languages and rock cut chambers carved into the sandstone. Petra’s most famous monument is The Treasury which appears dramatically at the end of the chasm. In Petra there are literally hundreds of rock cut tombs and temple facades, funerary halls and rock reliefs. There is a 3,000-seat theatre from early 1st century A.D.

there's nothing like it... the experience of riding a horse through the narrow walls of the siq, and watching as it dramatically and suddenly opens up to the view of the 'khazneh' or treasury, beautifully carved into the red rock, remembering those stunning scenes from indiana jones and the last crusade - and finding out for yourself that this legendary place is REAL and much more impressive than the movie.. it's truly awesome. don't miss hiking up to see the equally impressive 'deir', the monastery. i've been there twice and can't wait to go back again. if you go to petra, don't do it as a just a day trip from another country unless you really have to. it would be a shame to miss the beautiful capital of amman, and the incredible ruins of the ancient city of jerash! :)