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  • Hazukashii2021-On On to my 100th CountryTraveler
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    • Day 189
    • Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 12:29 AM
    • 🌙 21 °C
    • Altitude: 1,512 m
    • JordanQurnat Bin Sa‘d30°17’16” N  35°27’39” E

    Petra

    July 8, 2021 in Jordan ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

    Cross off another bucket list dream . . . After being one day away from arriving in Jordan back in March 2020, COVID turned me away . . . as my flight out of Jordan was cancelled. I quickly booked a ticket to Bahrain, and was able to explore for another month before having to return to the US. But Today, Today is the day, Petra has been explored.

    Petra, a giant metropolis of tombs, monuments, and other elaborate religious structures carved into stone cliffs, was the capital of the Nabatean kingdom, a little-understood Middle Eastern culture that ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third century B.C. until the first century A.D.
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