Exploring Petra

At 8 am we were ready to explore the ancient Nebetan city Petra. We bought the two days pas for 26 JD ( 35 USD). The one days pass costs 21 JD, but one day is not enough to explore this big city Petra is the number one touristic attraction in Jordan and tourism is important for the locals - mostly beduins. They are offering rides on camels, horses, mulls or chariots and selling souvenirs. Since there are not too many tourists in January they are quite desperate. We were happy to walked and did not take any offers for very cheap the animal rides. It is quite hard to describe what this site looks like. It was build by Nebetans in ??? BC as their capital. They have controlled the important caravan routes. Im more than 500 years they have carved inside the sand stone many churches and thumbs. Most of them were very well preserved. The who city is berried in the canyons. After 3 km walk we have reached the Treasury with very well preserved carved pillars and portals. We decided to see the high sacrifice place and climbed up the mountains. On the way up we met few very young guys offering mule rides. The all spoke very good English and told us names of their "air-conditioned" four leg taxis. One was called Michael Jackson. I made few pictures of them and we told them that we do not have much many and that we are very happy to walk up. They replied "no money no honey" and we left them behind waiting for more lazy and rich tourists. On the way up we met several beduin girls trying to sell us some jewelry. We were quite good not buying anything for the "very good price". On the top we were joined by a young boy. He showed us a way to the sacrifice place and on the way back managed to sell us one nice necklace. It was getting late and we did not see much yet. As we went down we met few beduins and their goats. One small girl told us "come come" and took us the the place where they live.It was one cave house. They had about 20 goats and few nice kids were running around. The sun light was very nice and the kids very quite so I took few pictures. We found out that they have been living there for 10 years. On the way back we met few polish which were traveling from Egypt. We were quite happy that we can travel ourself and not with some organize tour. We were quite tired and so we decided to take the last 1 km a horse. The regular price was 7 JD but we got it for 1 JD. I went i bit but the horse was only walking so I let it to Agnieszka who is good horse rider. It was not much faster. The owner of the horse sat also onthe horse and drowe away with Agnieszka. It was not too far to the entrance, but I could not see Agnieszka. I was getting a bit worried, but I found them in the horse hospital. We met there another guy who told us that he just came back from Europe. He invited us for coffee and told us that we can meet latter and make fire in some cave. We went back to the car and made dinner. He cam around 8 but we were too tired after te whole day walking and we stayed in the car and went sleep.