#little petra

[heavenskiriot]

Cats of Jordan

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[mirkokosmos]

Siq al-Barid

[azvolrien]

Little Petra, little only in comparison. Probably going to make a start on the Big Petra photos later in the afternoon.

Those steps you can see in the third-last photo are not, according to our guide, actually for climbing; it’s a water channel, and the steps are intended to slow down the flow on the occasions that it rains.

You know that one episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob’s brother comes to town, and Bob tells him that no civilisation has considered Chief Hydrological Engineer a ‘calling’? I feel like the Nabataeans probably did.

[travelella]

Little Petra, Jordan

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[tulsatrot]

Seven Random Facts About Jordan

Seven Random Facts About Jordan You Say! There was travel post about Jordan that I had originally wrote, but had forgot to publish. I figured that before I post it, I’d share seven random facts about Jordan. Jordan River – Not at the same point where was Jesus was baptized 2,000 years ago. The River has moved. Bethany Beyond the Jordan Bethany Beyond the Jordan is believed to be the site where…

[iamflowerta]

Little Petra, Jordan, 2019.

[jontycrane]

The ‘back door’ to Petra

Once a secret, now a well trodden path, the ‘back door’ to Petra was one of my favourite experience at this popular place, relatively quiet with stunning views. It takes you into Petra by the Monastery, one of the most spectacular sights, and saves walking back on yourself to return to the visitor centre. A free shuttle bus leaves the visitor centre once full and takes 15 mins along scenic roads…

[dknuth]

Little Petra and the hike to Petra

We left the Bedouin camp and walked to Little Petra where we got our tickets and took a quick look around Little Petra. Like Petra there's a narrow slot in the stone wall that's the entrance to the site.

Inside the tombs, residences, etc. are all carved into the stone walls.

There were also stairs carved into the walls, but I have no idea where they were going.

The stone both here and in Petra the stone tends to have natural holes that people carved out larger.

After a brief walk around Little Petra, we headed out to walk to Petra itself.

There were a lot of stairs going both up and down along the way. But we ended up in front of the Monastery, the largest and highest tomb in Petra.

From there it was down, down down. Most people come from the other end of the town and have to hike up these long stairs to get there. Most of them have no idea how far up it is. As we approached the bottom we could hear people talking about "all the stairs."

The guys delivering stuff to shops use donkeys in the same space as the pedestrians. The donkeys are not very well under control. I saw one coming up with a large gas bottle on each side. A middle age couple also coming up the stairs didn't hear it coming and the gas bottle on the right side just bowled the woman over, into her husband who almost went over the side.

When we finally reached the bottom of the stairs we were in the middle of Petra. We met our local guide for the rest of the day and went to have lunch. We'd brought sack lunches and we just wanted a shady place to sit. Those were hard to find, so the guide said he knew a good place 200 meters farther. It was more like a kilometer., but it was available.

The guide talked very quickly, more quickly than he could actually pronounce the words, so was very hard to understand. I had done a lot of reading in advance, so didn't get much out of him. But most people in the group had done no advanced reading.

We headed for the other famous tomb, The Treasury. It was a zoo in front of it. Huge crowds of people, many in large groups with camels in between and horsemen rushing through.

One interesting thing to me was the clear evidence that the ground level it greatly raised from the original. In the front of The Treasury, there are grates over the excavation of the actual ground level.

Then we headed out to town and our hotel. But the entrance there is down a long slot canyon.

It's almost a kilometer through the canyon and another one to the entrance of the preserve.

In the end it was a 21 km day with 534 meters of climb. When you add in the standing around it was a long day.

[sopuu]

the besties r hangin out

[boxofoxberry]

sorry guys i doomed the yuri AGAIN. UGH

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hee haw…..i saw you saying something about mcsm requests….so maybe some harper and ivor or olivia and petra :3333

teehee how about both :DDD I REALLY LOVE DRAWING OLIVIA

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derg

[letraspal]

That’ll be Sophie and Petra. He says I shouldn’t bother trying to tell them apart. […]

“Mum says we’re to be nice to your friend even if he’s stupid.”

“No—even if he does something stupid.”

“I’m glad you’ve been warned,” Baz says.

Sophronia and Petra Grimm (aka the twins) | Women of the Simon Snow Trilogy

[wilsonmybeloved]

I've been brainrotting over MLP for a while and then I remembered MCSM exists. Here's the main cast of season 1 but ✨ponified✨

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[twopoppies]

Happy Pride 🌈

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