Walk to the Siq

After a wonderful lunch, Kamal shepherded us down the stony path to the Rose Red City a.k.a. Petra by calling out, “Yallah, yallah, yallah! Let’s go!”

We passed a gauntlet of tourist shops along the way, but soon we were surrounded by ancient history.

Our tickets included a free horse ride to the entrance of the main canyon, but we skipped this.

We would’ve missed Kamal’s commentary had we done so, as well as missing several tombs that the ancient Nabateans carved into the rocks.

You can see the Egyptian influence in the tomb with the obelisks on it, but I’ll talk more about that in another post.Read more