Nabatean art at Little Petra - I found it!! and other Petra, Jordan Off The Beaten Path Tips

I found a sign that showed me to apparently the only surviving art from amongst the residences of the Nabateans around Petra - to me this was highly exciting!

Up in what was a 3rd floor living area are the remains of Nabatean art on the ceilings and wall from about the 1st century.

A little bit hair raising getting up there to it and even a little more hair raising getting back down again but it was great zooming in on the colour and designs and grabbing these shots!

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About half an hour away by car is what I was told was worth seeing was also 'Little Petra'. It was not on my map and I didnt really know where it was but I had decided to take the back road when heading north - which actually went past the whole Petra site with even more tombs in amongst the rocks seen from the road.

Thankfully I came across a sign directing that Little Petra was somewhere ahead.

There were information signs around the area as well - pointing out a Nabatean cistern and dam and then arrving at the parking area, with a few souvenir shops and public toilets, there were information signs outside a couple of tombs and pointing out the house that has the last remaining site of Nabatean art to be found.

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I had no idea - I was amazed actually - that not only was it the Treasury and all the other carved out of rock with all the decorations and trimmings 'buildings' and mausoleums that I had seen a pictures of and therefore expected - but that the rock that whatever was to be seen that made Petra such a famed and prestigious off the beaten track must see and Unesco was itself so amazing to see!

The colours to behold! Amazing colours streaking through the rocks along the pathways we walked, in under rocky overhangs, or peering into the rooms cut into the rocks marvelling at the patterns and colours to be seen on the ceilings and walls inside.

Vivid reds and bluey purples, blacks and white, and even pastelly yellows and oranges and pinks.....beautiful really!

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