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    • TravelerJordanien - Jordan Trail
      2
      Day 20

      Etappe 15: Little Petra - Petra

      April 13, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Heute haben wir die letzte Etappe von unserem persönlichen Jordan Trail in Angriff genommen. Wir sind deshalb im Verlauf vom Vormittag mit dem offiziellen Shuttlebus zurück nach Little Petra gefahren. Von dort aus führte die Etappe sozusagen durch die Hintertür mitten hinein nach Petra.

      Auf dem Weg sind wir am wunderschönen Kloster Ad Deir vorbeigekommen, wo wir eine längere Pause eingelegt haben. Das Sandsteingebäude Ad Deir gehört zu den grösste Bauwerken der Felsenstadt. Es ist aussergewöhnlich gut erhalten und meiner Meinung nach einfach nur beeindruckend. 😍 Das Gebäude ist knapp 50 Meter hoch, fast ebenso breit und wurde Anfang des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. erbaut. Als Vorbild für die Gestaltung der Fassade diente das Schatzhaus Al Khazneh. Ad Deir war jedoch kein Felsengrab, sondern wurde für religiöse Versammlungen genutzt. Eine Inschrift in der Nähe lässt vermuten, dass dort der nabatäische König Obodas verehrt wurde, den man nach seinem Tod zum Gott erhob. Später wurde Ad Deir als christliche Kapelle genutzt. Die eingeritzten Kreuzsymbole im Innenraum führten dazu, dass das Bauwerk den Namen Kloster erhielt.

      Danach hatten wir noch genug Zeit, um alle anderen Ecken in Petra zu erkunden, die wir gestern verpasst hatten. 👍🏻

      Somit sind unsere Wanderferien offiziell beendet. Während 15 Wandertagen haben wir 345 km und 14‘050 Höhenmeter hinter uns gebracht. In Leistungskilometern waren das durchschnittlich 32 km pro Tag. Nicht schlecht, mit diesen unglaublich schweren Rucksäcken, oder? 💪🏻 Morgen fahren wir zum Abschluss unserer Reise noch in das Wüstental Wadi Rum, wo eine Jeep-Tour und zwei Kamele 🐪🐪 auf uns warten.      Read more

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    • Christie MitchellRTW 2022
      432212
      Day 156

      Just another day in Petra

      August 24, 2022 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

      Miles: 8.0 Steps: 22654
      Flights stairs: 65

      We have learned to get up early here - it’s cooler in the nighttime so morning is fairly cool and nice. We get out, do our hiking and are back to the hotel by noon or 1:00. Makes it bearable.

      We hiked in and went all the way to the end, to the “monestary”. This is a carved building in the rock, just like the famous “treasury” but much bigger. It’s also much more difficult to get to. We hiked about 4 miles and up 850 steps today to get to it. Most steps yet. Very impressive tho. It’s unbelievable that these massive structures are carved into the stone.

      There are a lot of animals being used for transport of all kinds here. Mostly donkeys, some horses and then a handful of camels. It’s crazy to see the donkeys climbing the rock steps. We refused to use the donkeys to help us, as it just seemed cruel. They were so tiny .. and well, we obviously are not. Just felt wrong. And the horses are definitely not healthy or taken care of. Pretty sad situation.

      However, after we hiked back down the mountain, we did decide to take a camel ride for about a mile or so. It seemed less cruel as the camels are built for the desert and are SO big. The owner also seemed to take good care of them - hopefully looks weren’t deceiving. At least how we justified it. 🤷‍♀️ It was AMAZING. I’ve ridden horses, but these were so much taller and bigger. The feeling of having them stand up and sit back down while we were on them was incredible. They are VERY tall! I was on “Zuzu”, a 7 yr old male and Jordan was on “Daisy”, a 3 yr old female. Apparently, they can go a WEEK without food or water. Not that they do, but they can. Amazing finish to our time in Petra.      Read more

    • Unsere Reise... wherever we go
      Day 75

      About last night

      November 20, 2022 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Die letzte Nacht in Petra in den Bergen verbracht.
      So schön - diese Stille und die Sterne und der Sonnenuntergang🥰
      Auf sem Weg zurück noch ein wunderschönes Andenken in einem der hundert kleinen Stände gefunden.
      Heute sind wir dann mit dem Bus nach Amman und werden die Stadt nich anschauen, bevor es weitergeht.
      Amman ist die Hauptstadt von Jordanien und die größte Stadt des Haschimitischen Königreichs.      Read more

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    • Jordanien Family
      Day 6

      Petra

      April 8, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      Heute sind wir auf den Spuren der Nabatäer (und Indiana Jones;-)) unterwegs in der Felsenstadt Petra. Es ist wüstenhaft heiß und wir laufen mit ein paar 🤣 anderen Touristen den steinigen Weg entlang, bis rechts und links von uns sich immer mehr Höhlen und verzierte Felsen auftun. Über 1000 solche Gräber wurden in den Sandstein geschlagen. Dann wird es wunderbar schattig durch die schmale Schlucht Siq, die uns direkt zum Schatzhaus führt. Der Moment in dem wir es zum ersten Mal erblicken ist unglaublich! Wir entdecken und erklettern und bestaunen auch noch den Rest der Stadt. Es ist so beeindruckend, wie für jedes Grab, jedes Theater, jede Verzierung vor über 2000 Jahren der Stein rausgehauen werden musste. Jede Menge Zeit und Arbeit und Schweiß und Liebe und bestimmt auch Leben muss das gekostet haben. Deshalb erklimmen wir auch die 900 Stufen ganz nach oben zum Kloster. Den Weg teilen wir mit Eseln, die nicht ganz so schweißbereite Touristen hoch und runter tragen. Wir sind stolz und glücklich und kehren in der Feierabendstimmung den Rückweg aus diesem riesigen Weltwunder an - die Stimmung ist noch viel schöner als am Morgen, wir sind fast allein, ein angenehmer Abendwind weht, wir saugen nochmal alles auf und lassen unsere Füße nach den gemessenen 23687 Schritten ein wenig ausruhen…Read more

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    • TravelerGiordania
      Day 3

      Petra - Monastero

      June 18, 2022 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Ci concediamo il lusso di dormire qualche ora in più, non troppe perché alle 9 vogliamo essere dentro Petra.
      Anche oggi km e km di main trail fino a raggiungere la famigerata salita per il monastero. Il sentiero resta ombreggiato fino a mattinata inoltrata e ne approfittiamo per salire in una mezz'oretta senza morire. Il monastero è immenso, imponente, stupendo.
      Incontriamo gli stessi polacchi che era sul bus della Jett e vari italiani, ma tutto sommato quassù ci sono pochi turisti e si può respirare. Proseguiamo ancora un po' per un tè con vista e una pausa meritata.

      Pranziamo alla bella e meglio con dei falafel, un panino e un toast con le uova rubato a colazione e fermentato per ore nello zaino. (S)carichissimi per tornare verso l'hotel deserto e le cene a misura di 5 persone.      Read more

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    • World Trip
      Day 261

      Petra

      November 4, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      We woke up really early because today we went to Petra! After picking up our tickets, we spent almost 7 hours walking through Petra. We walked through the Siq to the Treasury, and then onwards along the Al Khubta and Wadi Al Ferasa trails - about 25,000 steps and 18.5km of walking.

      The next day, we also woke up really early to head to Petra before the crowds. We headed straight to the Monastery, the second most famous site in Petra, covering about 15km (return) and 800 steps. On the way up to the Monastery, we were invited into a shop for tea with a Bedouin lady. We had a nice break at the Monastery, before heading back to the car and stopping off for falafel sandwiches for lunch. We finished off our day with a beautiful sunset from our hotel and a massive home cooked meal of chicken mansaf.      Read more

    • Summer of 23

      Day 89 - Petra, Jordan

      October 6, 2023 in Jordan

      Today we had a free day to ourselves to roam around Petra and see the sites. Omar gave us an option to see Little Petra by taking a free shuttle bus, then another bus towards the Monastery, with a bit of a walk to it. Easier and more picturesque than climbing the normal stairs.

      So we had breakfast at 6:30am and made our way to the visitors centre to take the shuttle bus to Little Petra (Triclinium).
      We arrived at Little Petra and walked through the valley admiring the many cats & kittens around the area. Little Petra is a smaller version of Petra with one carved tomb called Siq Al-Barid, there is also a cave with the remains of a fresco painted by the Nabataeans that represented grape vines, which confirmed the view that Beida was the area of wine production. We made our way to the top of the lookout point and then came back down to take the next bus to the start of the back trail to the Monastery.

      We climbed the 1750 steps along the trail and got some amazing views of the surrounding valley and landscape. Upon walking up towards the monastery from the back trail, you get first glimpse 5 minutes away and then you get to see it come into view for a couple 100 meters.
      We climbed up to a lookout point to admire the Monastery, I found this more amazing than the treasury, as everyone was spaced out and there wasn’t merchants everywhere trying to sell you something. The Monastery is one of the largest monuments in Petra, measuring 47m wide by 48m high.

      We started the downhill steps towards the basin, while we were had to dodge donkey & mulls either going up or down.
      We walked up to the Royal Tombs which were two different families with two different facades.

      It was a very hot day and not a lot of shade cover from the sun. We walked back to the Treasury and found it was a lot more quiet than when we were here yesterday. We admired it for a bit longer before turning and to start the walk out of the Petra site.

      We planned to go to the museum that is included in the ticket, though on the walk back we were felling hot & tired & opted to grab some food from the supermarket before going back to the hotel.
      We had a quiet afternoon at the hotel before 5pm, we had booked a Turkish Massage. The Turkish massage consists of a 15minutes spa bath, meant to be 15minutes in the sauna, (I stayed the longest awaiting to be called out) a scrub down and a massage. At the end they put you back into the spa bath for a while. It was good, we both thought the massage would be longer but good to get it after all the walking we’ve been doing.

      Tonight we had dinner with the group down locally from the hotel, then we turned in as we have an early start tomorrow.      Read more

    • Gottfried PalinkasHaschemitisches Königreich
      1
      Day 6

      al-Batrā

      October 4, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      Petra

      Schön. Imposant. Beeindruckend. Anstrengend.

      Wir hatten anfangs Glück mit dem Wetter (wolkige 19°), später war es sonnige 26°. So viel geschwitzt wie beim Aufstieg in‘s „Kloster“ (Ad Deir) habe ich schon lange nicht mehr.

      Aber es gibt so viel zu sehen, lohnt sich wirklich. Und die Menschenmassen auch nicht zu lästig. Gab zwar viele Gruppen, aber selten stand eine Horde im Weg. Und man konnte immer überall hin, keine Staus. Lästiger waren dann eher die Esel-/Maultier-„Reiter“, die nur sitzend den Hin- oder Rückweg bewältigen konnten.

      Dadurch konnten wir aber alles an einem Tag besichtigen. Zumindest alles was uns interessiert hat.      Read more

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    • Traveler2023 - on the road again
      Day 235

      Up top!

      September 14, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Ufff, geschafft - hoch zum Kloster, und vor allem heile wieder runter. Ne gute Dreiviertelstunde jeweils, manchmal gabs Treppenstufen, manchmal recht ausgelatscht, manchmal keine.

      Dank Khaders Warnung sind wir alle extravorsichtig, und passen auf uns auf „donkey!!“. Mit Rachel und Eleanor ist’s lustig, unser Tempo passt gut.

      Und nein, auf so einem armen Esel sollte keiner platznehmen und sich hoch oder runter transportieren lassen!!!      Read more

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    • Elvis LivesArabian Nights
      Day 6

      Petra Return

      September 14, 2023 in Jordan ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Another early start and back down the siq into Petra. We were waiting for the sun to hit the Treasury, but soon realised that was a bit like watching the pot boil so carried on whilst it was quiet.

      This time we took the steep steps carved into a side canyon, and had the trail almost entirely to ourselves. The Place of High Sacrifice (goats, not people!) was our reward, along with some great views back into the ancient city and out over the rugged landscape.

      We made our way back down the gentle way and back out along the main route. We felt as we'd really explored Petra well and glad we had the extra time there.

      Next we headed a couple of hours down to Wadi Rum. Leaving our car in the village they ran us out to our camp in a 4x4 when we enjoyed a super chilled sunset, meal & stargaze.      Read more

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    Umm al Bi”ār, Umm al Bi"ar, أم البيار

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