Monday, July 7, 2008

A rose-red city - as half as old as the time






Yesterday after watching Indiana Jones 3 we decided to go to Petra...well 6 hours later we were on our way. It was 5.00 in the morning.
First stop was Taba - witch is on the egyptian-israelian border. It took us like 1 hours to pass the border. We would have been faster but this security guy slowed us down by asking stupid questions. Finaly we were in israel. After that we hitchhiked to the jordan border witch is 20km away. after another visa hustle we were finaly in the main capital of jordan - Aquaba.
Another 2 hours in the car and we finally arrived Petra.

Petra City is beautiful. We went to our hotel and checked in, then lunch and finally we went to see the old nabatean city of petra witch is made into the rocks.

More about Petra you will find on Wikipedia.

It was amazing to walk in this old city. The red stones, the light - it was incredible!
We felt like Indiana Jones - exploring a old lost city.

After many hours in the burning heat we decided to go back to dahab and cancelled the night in the hotel.
Again it was a BIG HUSTLE to pass all the borders. But after that we finally found a taxi witch drove us home to dahab.
24 hours after we watched the movie we were back in dahab with a lot of incredible experiences.

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