Day 6 Petra Revisited

Wednesday February 24th.

Woke up at 8:00 this morning, had breakfast had then headed back to Petra with Kyrs, Jackie, Sam, Graham and Tess. We wandered down through the canyon and arrived at the “Treasury” with the sun on it. Beautiful sandstone colours. Then we walked down into the main part of the city. We went to a couple of the caves to see the sandstone colours and some mosaics.

Then we headed out for a hike that climbs up and over the mountain to a trail that leads to an overlook of the Treasury. Great hike and great view.

When got back down we went to the ruins of the temple. Then Jackie headed off to do the Monastry walk, Krys and Sam headed back to the hotel and Graham, Tess and I headed to the Sacrifice trail. Again we hiked up a rough staircase to the top of the mountain, where we had a lookout over the entire valley. We sat up there for a hour or so and had a cup of tea with the Bedouin woman in the photo. Then we walked back up through the canyon to the hotel. Second great day of hiking through the ruins of Petra.

After a briefing session about tomorrow, we all headed out for dinner at the Red Cave restaurant. Jess is really good about taking us to good, reasonable, local restaurants and explaining the menu to us. Tonight I had something called "Mansafe" which was rice, with boiled lamb covered in a liquid yogurt. Not bad. Came with meza salads and baklava. I also had two fresh lemon and mint drinks.

Back to the hotel for e-mail and blogging.