Petra

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.Læs mere