Petra in Jordan

As we were leaving Jordan we saw a lone Shepard boy herding sheep. These are exactly like the Shepard that saw the star over Jerusalem back in the day.

So many different colors of rock and sand, it was beautiful. We bought sand jars that had the sand with designs made in the bottle. Mine broke when i was washing my kitchen window! darn it.

This is one of their kings tombs. A lot of the structures that were left were tombs. It was huge!

Mom

Better picture of the treasury

This is the treasury. It was like their bank. A roman calendar is carved into the face of it with roses and wheat standing for months, weeks, years etc. If you look closely on either side of the outer columns you can see small holes carved into the wall. This was the ladders that the artisans used to scale the wall to work on the structure. Very cool.

Mom with our guide in the background. He was Jordanian and very knowledgeable.

This is a roman soldier leading a camel that was carved over an aqueduct that ran down the side of the canyon. It went the entire length of siq and carried their "sweet water" or drinking water. You can see the feet of them and some of the outline of the camel on the rock. their legs went over the aqueduct to the front. The folds in the soldiers um dress? means that it was made from fine linen most likely silk. Only the Romans were this well dressed.

Beautiful rocks!

There were were these carved out places in the rock where they used to put statues of their gods in. Our guide said that they carved the holes in the rock so they could hang incense, flowers, and live sacrifices from.

Me and mom rode Arabian horses to the "siq" (seek) that was the start of the city of Petra. There used to be a large arched gate there that you can see some remnants of.

This is Saudi Arabia looks about how they portray it in the bible dry and desolate.

While we were on our way to Petra (after crossing into Jordan) We stopped at this store that overlooked Saudi Arabia. A guy at the shop tied these on our heads then offered my mom 20 camels for me! I felt like Mahanna. Thanks for saying not for sale mom. I think that's how the Bedouins used to get wives (their sort of dowry) in the old days. Now it's more of a compliment to say your pretty.

This was outside the bathrooms that we used while crossing the Israeli- Jordanian border. We had to cross a no man's land with guards and big guns on either side. New experience.