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1000places > PRELUDE TO PETRA - That evening from the balcony of our hotel we watched the sun set behind the Petra basin - a harbinger of the magnificent sights we were to see the next day.
1000places > PETRA - The lower Sig widened and we saw this elegant structure carved into one wall. Interestingly, no explorer apparently ever gave it a name. So today, it is called simply "Tomb 68."
1000places > PRELUDE TO PETRA - In the evening, we pulled into Wadi Musa - the "valley of Moses" - a rugged, mountainous terrain of jagged peaks and deep gorges. This was the view from our hotel room. Somewhere below, hidden deep in the cracks and folds of the red rock hills, was Petra.
1000places > PETRA - The goal of our hour-long climb was this: The Monastery - one of the most magnificent and prodigious of all of Petra's monuments.
1000places > PETRA - Although clearly patterned after The Treasury, though not as intricately carved, The Monastery still boasts one interesting and distinguishing feature: the urn at its top has been completely carved away from the mountainside. It is the only 360-degree carved urn at Petra.
1000places > PETRA - The people who work at Petra are primarily Bedouins. Until the 1980s many of them lived in Nabatean caves at the site. When the Jordanian government decided to turn Petra into a National Park, most were pressured to move to a concrete settlement outside the city known as Umm Sayhun.
1000places > PETRA - The writer/photographer Jane Taylor wrote of The Monastery: ""Its size dwarfs mere mortals who stand before it like ants before a colossus - yet ants such as these, with improbable tools, cut this vast facade from rock 2,000 years ago."
1000places > PETRA - There was also the rocks themselves - a seemingly endless kaleidescope of abstract colors and patterns.
1000places > PETRA - At times the trail seemed suited only for these creatures.
PRELUDE TO PETRA - That evening from the balcony of our hotel we watched the sun set behind the Petra basin - a harbinger of the magnificent sights we were to see the next day.

1000places > PRELUDE TO PETRA - That evening from the balcony of our hotel we watched the sun set behind the Petra basin - a harbinger of the magnificent sights we were to see the next day.
PRELUDE TO PETRA - That evening from the balcony of our hotel we watched the sun set behind the Petra basin - a harbinger of the magnificent sights we were to see the next day.

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