Petra # 4

 

Randal and I continued down form the High Place of Sacrifice…

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Garden Temple Complex and time for food!

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More tombs and at one time, amazingly, some gardens..

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Now an impromptu picnic area with every rock taken, shaded from the hot noontime sun.

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Roman Soldier’s Tomb, I think.

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Triclinium with its amazing colors

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Looking out from the Triclinium towards the Roman Soldier’s Tomb

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Not sure what this is; maybe the Columbarium according to the Petra brochure

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Fragrant bushes in the desert.

From there Randal and I went directly for some hot tea (me) cold beer Randal, and a rest.  This was the end of our second day at Petra.   We said our final farewell and walked our way back to and through the Siq and treated ourselves to a taxi back to the hotel.

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Hike to “The Monastery” with Charmaine and Linda the afternoon of our first day in Petra.

This hike crosses part of Wadi Musa..Valley of Moses and includes 800 stone cut steps along the way.

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It was a hot, tiring walk that we started late afternoon our first day while Randal waited for us down below relaxing with some ice cold beer.

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Some of the 800 stone steps encountered along the way. Many people opt for the donkey taxis but we walked up and then we walked down.

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The Monastery facade with Linda and Charmaine (matching hats) in the foreground and a photo of me taken by a friendly stranger earlier.

"The Monastery is Petra’s most colossal temple, dedicated to the deified king Obodas 1 who died in 86 BC. Its simple, powerful architecture, thought to date from the 1st century AD, is seen by many to be the quintessential Nabataean Classical design….It came to be known as The Monastery because of the many Christian crosses carved on its walls. Eyewitness Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

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As we watched this guy climbed up and jumped around the roof tops and then climbed to the very top!

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Fiddler on the Roof or Crazy Nut?

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And then we walked down, back through the complex, back through the Siq and all the way up hill back to our hotel for a very full first day.