Petra

 

I have wanted to visit Petra ever since I was twelve years old and  read Richard Halliburton’s “Royal Road to Romance.” the rest of you may have been inspired by the Indiana Jones movie where Harrison Ford is racing down the Siq on a white horse.  The temples really are “rose pink and half as old as time.”  and their sudden appearance after walking a mile in a narrow slot canyon really is magical.  But even without the temples it would be beautiful.  The rocks contain red, blue and white stripes. Except for the sky, blue is a color almost never seen in nature, but then Petra is a place that was made by genies. The Bedouin children are beautiful work animals all seemed a lot healthier than they were in Egypt and the sellers less aggressive.  It would be easy to make this a lost Eden and in fact a woman from New Zeeland has lived their for twenty five years and just completed writing a novel titled “Married to a Bedouin.” Autographed copies are available for twenty Jordanian Dinar or 17.95 at your local book store

Photos of Petra