There are plenty of good things to do in Jordan, notably the dead sea, but I wasn't interested in floating about. I wanted to go to Petra. I had become slightly obsessed with Petra since I first saw an image of the Siq in the 1988 edition of Guiness Book of Records (Natural World section). This interest became a fully blown obsession when the Treasury and Siq featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I had to go there. So we did.
Petra lived up to my colossal expectations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra)
A city carved out of the rock. And the Siq itself – a stunning natural crack/pathway through the rock, providing a perfect 400 metre defence to the Treasury at the other end – was as awesome as I'd hoped. There are loads of buildings carved, including; an amphitheatre, a monastery and one of my personal favourites 'The High Place of Sacrifice'. You climb to the highest point in the mountains and you've got a proper slab of rock solely for the purpose of offering sacrifice to the Gods.
Petra fully deserves to be included in the new list of the 7 wonders of the world.
