The Landscape around Petra.... and other Petra, Jordan Things to Do Tips

The Landscape around Petra

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The Landscape around Petra consists of a series of high plains, seperated by deep faults, overlooking wide valleys, which for many centuries have provided communication routes.

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Things To Do: Starting the visit

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on Nov 26, 2006

The start of the visit.
Horses can be hired for the first part of the route.

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Things To Do: Obelisk Tomb & Bab Al-Siq Triclinium

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on Nov 26, 2006

The Obelisk Tomb is named for the four obelisks on the upper storey of the monument.
The Obelisk was a Nabataean funereal symbol.

The Bab Al-Siq Triclinium is a classical Nabataean design characterised by three rooms. The carved rooms are thought to have been banquet halls to honour the dead.

Although built one on top of the other, these two tombs are quite separate. The facade below the obelisks belong, in fact, to the triclinium.

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The Siq: Water reservation in the desert

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Along the right wall of the Siq a conduit is visible, cut directly into the rock and still enclosed with slabs of rock in several places. The channel was part of the city's extensive network for carrying water drawn from the natural wells near the village now known as Wadi Musa.

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The Treasury: Khazneh (The treasury)

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on May 6, 2006

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Used in the final sequence of the film 'Indiana Jones' and 'the Last Crusade', this towering facade is only the first of Petra's secrets. Various walks and climbs reveal hundreds of buildings, facades, tombs, baths and haunting rock drawings and reliefs.

Back to Khazneh,
The urn perched at the top of Khazneh was believed to hold countless treasures, gold and precious jewels, hence the monument's name.

Inspired by classical Hellenistic architecture, the Khazneh's facade is 30m wide and 43m high; carved in the first century BC as a tomb for a Nabataean king, some scholars believe it was later used as a temple.

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Things To Do: Urn Tomb

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Urn Tomb

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This large tomb competes with the Khazneh and the Deir in terms of size and grandeur.
Its immense courtyard and main chamber give an air of importance.

Above the doorway are three chambers. The central chamber is blocked by a large stone presumed to be a depiction of the man buried inside.

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Things To Do: A line of tombs

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A line of tombs

A line of tombs

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Things To Do: Rock's art

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In order to get the real proportion about dimensions of the rock -
Pay attention to a donkey in the bottom of one of the pictures.

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Things To Do: A number of dwellings

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A number of dwellings

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