From Israel we went to Jordan for the day to visit Petra.  We crossed the border at Eilat and were met by a guide who drove us 3 hours to Petra.  After our tour the guide

took us to his parents house for tea, as he had not visited for 2 months and was feeling guilty...also there were only  2 of us not his usual sized group.  We had tea and in the course of conversation (with the guide, his mother didn't speak English) that his parents had been married for the same time as us.  It turned out though his mother is 10 years younger than Sandra, who quickly did the math and worked out she had been married at 12.

 

Petra was very interesting and attracts a large number of tourists.  It was also recently voted the second wonder of the world.

 

A bedouin encampment by the side of the road.  Not much vegetation around.

 

 

Walking through the canyon to the main entrance of Petra

 

 

The "Treasury" building...though no one knows for sure

what it was originally for.

 

 

No one actually lived at Petra. The Petrans lived a couple of

miles away, but Petra was used as a caravan stopover and

is full of tombs for the Petrans

 

 

The theatre

 

 

Tombs of the royalty carved into the rock