Petra is an archaeological site lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. (The Treasury building is pictured here.)Petra is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. We thought it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and had a lot of trouble accessing the web via "crackberry" in the middle of the Jordanian desert just to find out we were wrong!
After crossing the Jordanian border (where we got "stuck" long enough to shop at the tchotchke shop in between the two gates) we boarded a bus for the two hour schlep through the desert to get to Petra.
Although Isaac and David enjoyed the kefiahs, they opted NOT to wear them when they crossed back into Israel ... let alone into the US. Can you imagine how the Atlanta airport TSA guys would react? The hike into Petra was fascinating. That none of us were killed by the horse/donkey-driven carts that flew down the path was a miracle. After a while you began to hear our folks scream "Horse Back!" or, when applicable, "Ass Back!
There are many more pictures (some great shots of the carvings and landscape as well as the camels and the deadly horse-carts) on our Picasa site.
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