Petra is all about walking. Seriously,. Today, we put some serious miles on our feet. First hike: The High Place and roughly 900 steps. Again, while brutal, it takes effort. And on the way up—a lone donkey walking up by itself. Odd.
Great view of the other structures from the top and we got yelled at by some Frechman. Hey, it's not a fun day unless someone yells at you!
After we looked around, we hiked down the backside, toured a lot of tombs and carved houses—way too many to count! But all good. What I found interestingis that we only found one house that was carved on the inside. I can see why they wouldn't paint on the sandstone but to not carve it inside seems odd.
And around 3:00, we decided that we were “Tombed Out”. After all, one can only see so many tombs (even the ones at Petra) and at some point, they all start to blend. So what do we do…what to do…
We decide to go ahead and leave but to take an “alternate” route home that our guide had told us about. It’s not up the hill. It’s through the river bed, down a sandstone canyon, through a short tunnel and voila, you’re back at the entrance to the site.
Sounds easy enough?
It is, except for the climbing. Through the sandstone canyon, there are walls made of stone and misc. things like tires that you have to climb up in order to go on. Add that to the fact that someone motioned the word “Flash flood” and then that’s all I could think about. Yes, I know it’s a desert and I know it doesn’t get much rain but that doesn’t mean they don’t get flash floods. Still, even though it freaked me out a bit, but as always, I didn’t let a little trepidation stop me and an hour and a half later, we were outside Petra.
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