Apr 18, 2009

17Apr09 Petra in Jordan

YATTO KIMASHITA!!!!

I really wanted see "Petra"!!!!!!!! It also one of purpose in this travel!!!

I went to "Petra" which is the remains of an ancient city (3days pass : 31 JD)
The place was beginning of movie "Indiana Jones"
At first, walked into gorge (1.2km). avarage 5m wide, but some point just 2m and the walls tower up to 200m overahead.

And,,,, Icould see a first building "Treasury (Al-khazneh)" past the gorge.

Its awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you understand??? The building was carving by human!!! Its great works!! Ive never seen like this building so far!!!
This is the gorge which passed when I came to Petra.

"Theater"

"Monastery (Al-Deir)"
50m wide *45m high - 45min climbing (you can use donkeys 3JD one way)
It was built 3rd century B.C.
High place of Sacrifice to Petra city centre hiking
(2 hour hiking)
This is top of mountain "Jebel Madbah"

4 comments:

Tonykaku said...

INCREDIBLE!!!

hmmm, what did i do today...oh yeah, i walked to the beach and swam in the ocean. and you hiked to Petra. i think you will have a better story.
: )

yuyumei said...

>Tonykaku san

Your plan also seems nice!!!!!!!! I arrive at Dubai just right now! But I don't have interesting Dubai, I will move to Africa as soon as possible:):):) Im gonna join Safari tour!!!!! It gonna be fantastic travel more than now! Im soo exciting.hehehe

kate said...

この遺跡スゴイよね~。本気で見ようとしたら何日くらいかかる??相当大きいよね:D

ところで、知ってると思うけど、今日本では(世界ではだね)豚インフルエンザが懸念されてるよ。うちの会社でも、全海外渡航にstop掛かって、GWに海外旅行に行く人(わたしもなんだけど)はGW最終日に上司から電話があって、場合によっては自宅待機10日間だって(*_*)(*_*)(*_*)

yukoちんも気をつけてね!
何かあったら連絡してくるんだよぉ~(^0^)/

Tonykaku said...

where is Yuko-san? still on safari? after climbing Kilimanjaro, my friend and i did a 3 day safari which featured Ngorogoro Crater. that was about 15 years ago.

i hope you are having safe and fun travels.
tomorrow (May 1st), i will return to Osaka.

mata, ne.
kevin
ps. my blog now has a comment section.