Entry Petra has gone up recently and are now almost 60 euros, a paste truth. However, it is worth every euro. Have also decided to include in the entry the option of riding on horseback to the entrance of the siq, about 500m.
The siq, that we understand, is a pass of 1,200 meters long prelude makes the lost city of Petra. It seems like it was the effect of water and time that has created such a wonder, but is actually the result of tectonic movements.
Petra I knew little, and although sure that once I saw the movie of Indiana Jones, he remembered almost nothing more than the pass, I've seen in thousands of photos. However, I was impressed as if I had never before seen.
The siq is a masterpiece of nature. For 1.2 km you will discover unique landscapes. The siq is constantly changing in size both in height (reached in some areas on passing the 200 m high) and its width (from 15m to 2m) and the colors of the rock are as diverse as the palette of a painter. Pink-brown tint, through shades of blue or black himself.
rock forms also change, there contours rounded, others sharp, smooth walls and rough times. Constantly feel like touching the stone, it is difficult to understand only with the sight of this spectacle. Hopefully the photos hiciesen justice to what can only be fully appreciated in person.
And when they're totally amazed and immersed in the siq this is extremely small, just under 2 meters of the gorge wall separated from the other, and when it seems that finally you are going to join a surprise fascinating start to uncover the gold-toned facade of the Treasury (Kah zneh ).
seems that you gasp for a second and do not already know if what is before you is a mirage effect of heat and the walk or if it is real. It's a huge facade, huge, spectacular, carved into the rock. It was the king's treasury.
The Nabataeans built this city several centuries BC, remain stunning buildings like this, tombs, funerary buildings, but no houses. Moreover, for a long time it was assumed that Petra had been a necropolis (there are more graves than anything else.) The reason why no remains of houses is that the Nabataeans lived in tents, as they still do to this day the Bedouin. The area was very prone to earthquakes and therefore it was easier and more convenient to live in tents. For the same reason the Nabataeans chose to carve the facades of the main buildings in the rock and then excavating the inside, it was more simple and durable.
The Treasury is one of the most famous buildings, besides being more people to photograph, for easy access near the entrance of the city lost. Oddly enough, Petra has an area of \u200b\u200bover 260 square kilometers, and from the year 1189 until the early nineteenth century was completely forgotten and hidden except Bedouin and lived in it for obvious reasons did not want her to share this gem.
Only siq and the Treasury already had me crazy, shocked, stunned. I did not know is that the tour did nothing to start. As you walk through what was the main road of Petra, once mandatory step for caravans of merchants, you get to the theater that is poorly preserved but still conveying the majesty their best times. Many believe it was built by the Romans, but was actually the Nabataeans over 2,000 years ago. At first the stands welcomed about 3,000 people, and by the first century the Romans renewed and expanded so that would fit 8,500 people, a third of the population of Petra!
Shortly after arriving the Royal Tombs, which are also carved into the rock. Admittedly if graves are nothing more than large rooms-yes, costs understand how they were carved into the rock with such precision, "but their facades, such as Treasury, are amazing. In addition, many of them are high so the views are amazing.
I will not reveal here the secrets of Petra, I prefer that you are eager to learn more and find out. But I tell you a thing or two more, the Great Temple excavations began just over 15 years but the results are still fascinating. Among other things have found numerous capitals of columns in the form of elephant. I had never before seen anything like it, they may be unique in the world, and more in this area.
Here is Monastery and its grandeur is comparable to the Treasury. The difficulty to reach the monastery is such that it has become the jewel of Petra. About 900 steps carved into the rock of the mountain separating the tourist conformist browser. The first end their visit at the beginning of the climb, and is reversed. The other, with little energy left after walking about 15 kilometers (almost all the way covered in desert sand, sometimes reaching to the ankle), are preparing to climb the 900 steps.
The road itself is magical, breathtaking views . Are about 50 minutes if you walk, los hay que montan un pobre burro para evitar la fatiga.
Y cuando por fin llegas a lo alto de la montaña, majestuoso, encuentras el Monasterio.
For those who still have breath, there are two viewpoints about a kilometer from here, one of them promises to have a view end of the world, is actually Israel and Palestine ( or so they promise). Not the end of the world, but a spectacular view of towering mountains and rocky valleys.
And now it has to turn around and undo the progress already made, as if to erase our own footprints in the sand.
* All photos taken by the elf
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