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A tomb outside the Siq at Petra.
The Treasury at Petra.
On our way to the High Place of Sacrifice.
Cassie's knees are so much younger than mine!
The High Place of Sacrifice.
The Garden Temple.
The Monastery was named for cruciform images inscribed on interior walls. It's three times larger than The Treasury, and nearly at the top of a mountain.
From Petra we traveled to Wadi rum. This is the view from Lawrence Spring.
Reminds me a little of Monument Valley in Arizona, except instead of lava capped flat mesas, the sandstone mountains are weathered round at the tops.
The view from our Day One lunch stop.
Petroglyphs dating from at least the time of the Nabateans.
A brief hike through a shaded canyon.
Cassie atop The Big Arch. Yes, I remained below...
Sunset reminded me of home.
Cassie strikes a pose on the Khasch Route.
Aqaba is about an hour that a way, if you're a crow doing 100 kph.
The evening's entertainment in the main tent after supper the second evening.
Desolate views in all directions from Crusader Castle Shobak.
One can see for miles and miles (or kilometers and kilometers) from the heights of Castle Kerak.
Cassie and I spent New Year's Eve at the Holiday Inn Dead Sea. That's Israel across the lake...err..sea. We bobbed in the brine New Year's Day.
In the foreground is Umm Qais, formerly the Roman city of Gadara. On the right across the valley are the Golan Heights occupied by Israel for their obvious strategic and tactical advantage. In the distance beyond them is the Sea of Galilee (called Lake Tiberius by the Jordanians).
Along this road to west, and outside the perimeter of the ruin, is the Gadara cemetery, by tradition the scene of the New Testament story of the Demoniac of Gadara.
This road once lead from Jerash, Jordan to Damascus, Syria.
