Petra

One of the ultimate destinations in Jordan is the astonishing rose-red city of Petra. Once the stronghold of the gifted Nabataeans, an early Arab people, Petra was renowned for its massive architecture and the ingenuity of its pools, dams, and water channels.
Today thread your way through a narrow gorge (Siq) until you come upon colossal ruins cut into the rock and gasp in awe at the lost city of Petra - magnificent, silent and unchanged.
Start early, plan your trip properly, bring enough water (inside it's quite expensive) and be amazed! Petra is that kind of place that usually exists only in the imagination and is one place where seeing is indeed believing.

Djinn Blocks Entering As-Siq As-Siq Treasury (Al-Khazneh)
Treasury (Al-Khazneh) Guard at the Treasury Close-up Camel in front of the Theatre
Colourful carved housing Colourful carved housing Uneishu Tomb Palace Tomb
Royal Tombs View down to the Colonnaded Street Camel Wadi al-Deir
Plants Wadi al-Deir Monastery (Al-Deir) Monastery (Al-Deir)

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