Petra and Amman

A few more pictures of Petra. This is the treasury - and the picture does not do it justice. That they carved all this out of the rock! Unfortunately, we were not allowed to go in.
A picture of a cute Bedouin girl.  Behind her and inside are some wonderful colours in the rock. Quite a few local Bedouins were trying to sell their beads and other souvenirs. Everyone has to make a living somehow.
If you did not feel up to walking, there was another mode of transportation available.


After leaving Petra we drove through more wilderness and desert. Water is a great problem in Jordan. They are building a 360 kilometer water pipe from the South to the capital city Amman, we saw some of the pipes ready to be installed.

Here and there were Bedouin settlements. It seemed that we had gone back to the Bible times and saw the Israelites living in the desert (without the trucks of course and the satellite dishes that we saw sometimes as well).

Further north the landscape became more mountainous. We stopped at the Arnon Valley which was the border of Moab (Numbers 21). They have built a large dam in the river to use water for irrigation. Our bus driver seemed to have fun driving these roads.

Our last stop for the day was at the place with a few of the mountain where Herod the Great had a palace and it is the place where John the Baptist was beheaded. After this we headed for an hotel in Amman and were we ready for a nice long shower (and feel guilty about all the water we used) and a meal and bed. All in all it was another wonderful day. We now have an idea what Jordan is like. It is hard to imagine when seeing all this dry and sandy area, that crops can grow. We were told that the rainy season would soon start soon and that much terrain would be instantly green. This picture shows fields that are prepared for crops.