Rose Red City
5 day hotel/bedouin camp - Exploring Petra and Wadi Rum
Petra - the "rose-red city half as old as time" - is for many the most
impressive site in the Middle East. More than 2,000 years ago the ancient
Nabateans carved from the ochre sandstone a series of magnificent tomb façades
on a scale that defies belief even today. We spend two exhilarating days at
Petra, exploring the site on foot, then travel to Wadi Rum - whose magical
landscapes so inspired Lawrence of Arabia.
From Petra
There are few sites which can genuinely be
described as breathtaking, but the dramatic approach to Petra - on foot through
the winding Siq gorge (more than a kilometre long, up to 200m deep and sometimes
no more than 2 metres wide) creates a sense of mounting anticipation before
suddenly the glowing pink façade of the Treasury appears before you. And there's
much more to Petra than this: we also explore the Royal Tombs, the rock-cut
theatre, the vast and impressive Monastery, the High Place with its fine views
of distant Wadi Araba.
To Wadi Rum
Travelling south to the magnificent desert
scenery of Wadi Rum we camp Bedouin-style among echoing cliffs whose golden
colour intensifies at sunset to a deep pink, before the still desert night
settles and the sky fills with stars. In the crisp light of morning we camel
trek through the twisting Siq al Barrah gorge, perhaps appreciating why for
Lawrence of Arabia this landscape was at the same time so humbling and so inspiring.
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