Leaving Little Petra, we made our means over to Petra by way of a stop-off for lunch, as once we arrived again in Petra we might be searching 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 thought the best way 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 complete place just like the again of his hand.
He quickly had us scrambling by means of these enormous boulders making our solution to the highest of the hill simply above Petra.
The upper we climbed, the scarier it acquired, and by the point we arrived on the viewpoint, with the carpet all laid out earlier than us, my concern 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 loads decrease down and simpler to get to however this one right here is simply ridiculous.
It’s a sheer drop, and our recommendation would positively 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 performed right here, we retraced our steps again in the direction of the place we got here up the canyon, however as an alternative 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 means over to the other facet of the place we’d simply been however after that, every little thing else was fairly easy.
And by easy, I don’t imply straightforward.
You’re nonetheless climbing up within the mountains however a minimum of there was nothing that triggered any of our concern of heights.
The panorama up right here by the way in which is simply completely beautiful and also you get such a special appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra buildings that you just positively would have missed out on should you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being stated, there are positively loads much less scary methods to search out your means up right here (like the way in which we went again down felt like a a lot 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 explanation why we had been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it is because they’re boiled and piping sizzling which alleviated any issues of we would 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 can also make of that what you’ll. Hehe!
After our teas, we began on the simplest a part of the hike up to now, the journey again down.
I do know numerous folks actually don’t like downhill climbing nevertheless it’s like certainly one of my favorite issues to do.
Uphill climbing I battle with and can be one of many slowest in any group (I simply discover that I have to take my time a bit extra with that) however downhill?
Oh, I’ll be on the quickest particular person in any group. Hehe!
This may really be our last day of the journey in Petra earlier than we would go away for the desert the subsequent day and so we needed to take a second once we acquired to the underside to absorb the wonder that’s Petra within the sundown.
One way or the other, this present day that was imagined to be enjoyable had turned out to be one of the vital lively ones we’d had up to now and positively one of the vital rewarding as we uncovered points of this historic misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Ultimately, we made our means again to the doorway, by way of the unbelievable canyon the place we discovered a bar to toast to how superb Petra had been.
See you in Wadi Rum within the subsequent publish.
It’s a spot you already know even should you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so might Hollywood motion pictures.
However, like I stated, extra on that within the subsequent publish. 😁😁
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