Leaving Little Petra, we made our method over to Petra through 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 point of view 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 these large boulders making our approach to the highest of the hill simply above Petra.
The upper we climbed, the scarier it bought, 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 so much 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 have been carried out right here, we retraced our steps again in direction of the place we got here up the canyon, however as an alternative of happening, we went round to take a look at the opposite elements 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 aspect of the place we’d simply been however after that, the whole lot else was fairly easy.
And by easy, I don’t imply straightforward.
You’re nonetheless mountaineering up within the mountains however a minimum of there was nothing that triggered any of our worry of heights.
The panorama up right here by the way in which is simply completely beautiful and also you get such a unique appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra buildings that you simply undoubtedly would have missed out on in the event you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being mentioned, there are undoubtedly so much much less scary methods to seek out your method up right here (like the way in which we went again down felt like a significantly better possibility for getting up right here and even got here with stairs).
Finally, 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 prime.
Additionally, full disclosure, the rationale why we have been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it is because they’re boiled and piping scorching which alleviated any considerations of we would have had in any other case concerning the supply of the water.
Additionally, its price 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 thus far, the journey again down.
I do know a number of folks actually don’t like downhill mountaineering nevertheless it’s like considered one of my favorite issues to do.
Uphill mountaineering I wrestle with and shall 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 individual in any group. Hehe!
This might truly be our closing 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 bought to the underside to absorb the sweetness that’s Petra within the sundown.
In some way, today that was imagined to be stress-free had turned out to be one of the vital lively ones we’d had thus far and undoubtedly one of the vital rewarding as we uncovered facets of this historical misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Finally, we made our method again to the doorway, through 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 in the event you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so could Hollywood motion pictures.
However, like I mentioned, extra on that within the subsequent put up. 😁😁
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