Photos From Jordan

In May, 2008 I took a 10-day trip to Israel and Jordan. I arrived in Jordan via the Eilat/Aqaba border crossing and hired a taxi for the 2-hour trip north to Wadi Musa and the archaeological site of Petra. After a couple of days wandering around Petra, I took another taxi back to Aqaba and spent a day relaxing in the sun.

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King Abdullah II	Entering the Kingdom of Jordan	The view from Wadi Musa, heading down to the gate of Petra	The Djinn Blocks, Petra	The Obelisk Tomb, Petra
The Obelisk Tomb, Petra	The Siq, a long, narrow, natural gorge leading to ancient Petra	The Siq, Petra	Nearing the end of the Siq, a first glimpse of the Treasury, Petra	The Treasury, Petra
The Treasury, Petra	Detail of the Treasury, Petra	The Street of Facades, Petra	The Street of Facades, Petra	The Street of Facades, Petra
The Royal Tombs, Petra	Looking up at the Urn Tomb, Petra	Air-conditioned taxis, Petra	The Palace Tomb (left) and the Corinthian Tomb (right), Petra	The Palace Tomb, Petra
The Corinthian Tomb, Petra	Looking toward the city centre from the Royal Tombs, Petra	Colourful rocks, Petra	Detail of the Corinthian Tomb, Petra	Climbing up to the Urn Tomb, Petra
Colourful rocks, entrance of the Silk Tomb, Petra	Detail of the Urn Tomb, Petra	Upper-level entrance of the Urn Tomb, Petra	Colourful rocks, Petra	Colourful rocks, Petra
	Looking down at the Theatre from the Royal Tombs, Petra	Looking back toward the Urn Tomb, Petra	The Palace Tomb, Petra	The colonnaded street, Petra
Looking at the Royal Tombs from the Great Temple, Petra	Looking at the Royal Palace from the Great Temple, Petra	Tombs below the Edomite village ruins, Petra		Crusader fort of Baldwin I
	Looking down on the Great Temple, Petra	This fellow walked with me for a while	Looking up at the Royal Tombs, Petra	The Theatre, Petra
The Uneishu Tomb, Petra	Jordanian flag, Wadi Musa	The Nabataean Tunnel, Petra	The Treasury, Petra	The Treasury, Petra
Afternoon nap, Petra	The Theatre, Petra	The Great Temple, Petra	The city centre, with Qasr al-Bint on the left, Petra	The Lion Tomb (note the lions on either side of the door) on the climb up to the Monastery, Petra
Pretty flowers amongst all the rocks	Looking back on the climb up to the Monastery, Petra	Andy and the Monastery, Petra	The Monastery, Petra	Views from the lookout above the Monastery, Petra
Views from the lookout above the Monastery, Petra	Looking back at the Monastery, Petra	Views from the lookout above the Monastery, Petra	The Royal Tombs, on the climb up to the High Place of Sacrifice, Petra	The climb up to the High Place of Sacrifice, Petra
Views from the High Place of Sacrifice, Petra	The Royal Tombs from the High Place of Sacrifice, Petra	Cool rocks, Petra	Cool rocks, Petra	Cool rocks, Petra
The Palace Tombs, Petra	The one in front nearly ran me over	Room at the Movenpick hotel, Aqaba	The poolside at the Movenpick hotel, Aqaba	This is what it would look like if you were on the beach, and my legs were on your body
The beach of the Movenpick hotel, Aqaba	The beach of the Movenpick hotel, Aqaba	It's a rough old life	Movenpick hotel, Aqaba