Petra Revisited

Trip Start Feb 10, 2005

Trip End Jan 05, 2006

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Flag of Jordan Petra, Jordan
Friday, July 8, 2005

Mohammad and I went to Petra, an ancient city that was built 100 years before Christ by the Nabateans, but is built in the biblical land of Edom. Last time I went with Steve, Gunter, & Irene; and we did the basic tourist route. This time Moe and I climbed a different route and discovered a whole other side of Petra. It is hard to believe hundreds of thousands of people lived here over two thousand years ago.

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01 - Room with a View	02 - Entrance to Petra - The Treasury	03 - New Discoveries	04 - Tombs carved into the mountain
05 - Can you see the outline of the tomb carving?	06 - Tombs in the Moutain	07 - Lost Tomb	08 - Moe on the mountains edge
09 - Closer to the tomb	10 - Lion Fountain	11- Garden Tomb	12 - Garden Tomb & Cistern
13 - Inside the Garden Tomb, Looking Out	14 - Outside the "Banquet Hall"	15 - Inside the Banquet Hall	16 - Soldiers' Tomb which we saw from high up
17 - Me in the doorway of the soldiers tomb	18 - Courtyard outside the soldiers tomb	19 - A Bedouin Family who sold us Coke	20 - No, the fridge wasnt working.
21 - Jewels and Coke	22 - Desert Rododendron, it was as tall as me.	24 - Mountain Tombs	25 - Nabotean Temple
30 - Nabatean Temple closeup	31 - Doorway to temple	32 - Right place, Right time	33 - Ancient carport (yes that's a Ford)
34 - Temple at the top of the thousand steps	41 - On a cliff on the edge of the world	42 - On the Edge of the TransJordan Plateau	50 - My New Desktop