Day 4 - Petra

We drove 4 hours through flat and boring desert from Amman to a place that amazing beyond words. 

Petra!

Petra blew my expectations out of the water. The carvings were incredible.

We had the opportunity to hike up 1000 steps to the very highest mountain in Petra. This is the place that the Nabateans, used to make their sacrifices to their gods. 


From the top you can see the Tomb of Aaron.

That hike gave me a new understanding of "The High Places" talked about in the bible. 

After Petra we headed south to Wadi Rum, Jordan to spend the night with the Bedouins.










They made us their traditional food Zerba, which is where they dig a deep hole and like a fire in it, then put the meat on the fire and burry it in the sand for 2-6 hours depending on the type of the meat. 

They made us both chicken and lamb Zerba, the chicken was great, the lamb, not so much.


After dinner we danced around the fire with the Bedouins, it was interesting.