Leaving Little Petra, we made our method over to Petra by way of a stop-off for lunch, as once we arrived again in Petra we might be on the lookout for a viewpoint that we’d seen so many occasions in pictures and movies (earlier than arriving in Petra).
As apparent as the perspective appeared, we had no concept tips on how to discover it and so armed with pictures of it, we employed an area information to attempt to take us there.
Our information ended up being a teenage boy who knew this entire place just like the again of his hand.
He quickly had us scrambling by means of these enormous boulders making our method to the highest of the hill simply above Petra.
The upper we climbed, the scarier it obtained, and by the point we arrived on the viewpoint, with the carpet all laid out earlier than us, my worry of heights was in full overdrive.
I nonetheless don’t know what possessed us to go forward and take these pictures on the viewpoint as a result of after we did it, we simply realised how ridiculously unsafe it was.
There are different viewpoints like this quite a bit decrease down and simpler to get to however this one right here is simply ridiculous.
It’s a sheer drop, and our recommendation would undoubtedly be so that you can keep away from doing it.
Plus, the view from the underside is arguably extra spectacular anyway.
As soon as we had been completed right here, we retraced our steps again in direction of the place we got here up the canyon, however as a substitute of taking place, we went round to take a look at the opposite components of Petra we maybe would have missed out on in any other case.
There was one other harrowing bit at one doing as we made our method over to the other facet of the place we’d simply been however after that, the whole lot else was fairly easy.
And by easy, I don’t imply simple.
You’re nonetheless mountaineering up within the mountains however at the least there was nothing that triggered any of our worry of heights.
The panorama up right here by the way in which is simply completely attractive and also you get such a unique appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra buildings that you just undoubtedly would have missed out on should you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being stated, there are undoubtedly quite a bit much less scary methods to search out your method up right here (like the way in which we went again down felt like a significantly better choice for getting up right here and even got here with stairs).
Ultimately, we determined to cease for a second to take in the solar slowly beginning to dip and get ourselves some tea at a tiny little shack we discovered on the high.
Additionally, full disclosure, the rationale why we had been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it’s because they’re boiled and piping scorching which alleviated any issues of we’d have had in any other case concerning the supply of the water.
Additionally, its value noting that none of us had any tummy points after ingesting any of those teas so you may make of that what you’ll. Hehe!
After our teas, we began on the best a part of the hike to this point, the journey again down.
I do know a number of folks actually don’t like downhill mountaineering however it’s like certainly one of my favorite issues to do.
Uphill mountaineering I battle with and might be one of many slowest in any group (I simply discover that I must take my time a bit extra with that) however downhill?
Oh, I’ll be on the quickest particular person in any group. Hehe!
This could really be our remaining day of the journey in Petra earlier than we would depart for the desert the following day and so we needed to take a second once we obtained to the underside to soak up the sweetness that’s Petra within the sundown.
One way or the other, this present day that was purported to be stress-free had turned out to be some of the lively ones we’d had to this point and undoubtedly some of the rewarding as we uncovered elements of this historical misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Ultimately, we made our method again to the doorway, by way of the unimaginable canyon the place we discovered a bar to toast to how wonderful Petra had been.
See you in Wadi Rum within the subsequent put up.
It’s a spot you already know even should you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so could Hollywood motion pictures.
However, like I stated, extra on that within the subsequent put up. 😁😁
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