Petra

This is a photodocumentary of my time in Petra, Jordan. First, as I walked through the 10ft wide, 1km long, 100ft tall passage way into the city, I was excited. I was one of the first one's there, so I was walking through all alone. It was pretty cool. I'd never seen anything like this. A 1km passage way big enough for 1 cart sometimes 2 into a city. There was an aquaduct cut into the wall the whole distance too. You can see it to the right of my mouth. My right not yours.




As you walk through the corrider, you go around a corner and you start to see something ahead of you through the thin, little sliver of opening that is before you. All of the sudden the corridor ends and you are face in front of the treasury build in an area about 400m wide by 200m long. To the right of the treasury, te corridor continued briefly until opening up into the city. The city is surrounded by rugged, rugged desert mountains. There I stood amazed for quite awhile. The most amazing part was that the only thing behind these giant facades were rooms that were only about 5m tall by 12m wide (I'm getting used to the metric system. Temperature still throws me for a loop though). One room, that's it. I don't get it. Why all that work for one small room?



After I let myself be overwhelmed for awhile, I decided to get lost. I didn't really decide to I guess. It just happened that way. While this photo was not taking while I was lost, I think it portrays the accurate level of fear and confusion that I felt when I was lost at the Wadi bottom (Wadi's are the canyons that drain water from the top of a mountain range to the the plains outside of it. They are the easiest way to travel, but when you get to the bottom, you are so far down you can't see anything else around you) and walked into the pack of wild dogs.

I'm in Eilat now getting my SCUBA license, and then it's on to spear hunting for sharks in the Mediterranean.