Leaving Little Petra, we made our manner over to Petra by way of a stop-off for lunch, as once we arrived again in Petra we’d be in search of a viewpoint that we’d seen so many occasions in images and movies (earlier than arriving in Petra).
As apparent as the perspective appeared, we had no thought how you can discover it and so armed with images of it, we employed a neighborhood 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 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 worry of heights was in full overdrive.
I nonetheless don’t know what possessed us to go forward and take these images 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 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 have been executed 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 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 manner over to the other facet of the place we’d simply been however after that, every thing else was fairly easy.
And by easy, I don’t imply straightforward.
You’re nonetheless mountain climbing up within the mountains however not less than there was nothing that triggered any of our worry of heights.
The panorama up right here by the best way is simply completely attractive and also you get such a special appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra constructions that you just positively would have missed out on when you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being mentioned, there are positively quite a bit much less scary methods to seek out your manner up right here (like the best way 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 absorb 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 have been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it’s because they’re boiled and piping scorching which alleviated any issues 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 simplest a part of the hike up to now, the journey again down.
I do know a lot of folks actually don’t like downhill mountain climbing however it’s like one in all my favorite issues to do.
Uphill mountain climbing I battle with and will likely 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 really be our remaining 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 sweetness that’s Petra within the sundown.
One way or the other, at the present time that was imagined to be stress-free had turned out to be one of the crucial lively ones we’d had up to now and positively one of the crucial rewarding as we uncovered elements of this historic misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Ultimately, we made our manner 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 when you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so might Hollywood motion pictures.
However, like I mentioned, extra on that within the subsequent put up. 😁😁
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