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Jordan, Part 1 - Wadi Musa from the hotel
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Starting down the Siq into Petra
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Most of the 20-minute walk in is through a narrow pass
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A wide place in the Siq
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And then the Siq grows brighter
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A facade emerges
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The Petra Treasury
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One can go through Petra on camel
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The Treasury from a ledge on the north side
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Not all facades were so well protected from the elements
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The Street of Facades
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Now with camels
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Descending into town beside the theater
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Perhaps Petra doesn't look so different from 2000 years ago
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The main thoroughfare was busy with animal traffic
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Reclining near the theater
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Reclining reprise
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Hawking camel rides
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Heading toward Petra's Roman road
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Looking out from the Corinthian Tomb
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Part of the wide facade of the Royal Tomb
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The picturesque climb to the Urn Tomb
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Displying wares by the Nymphaeum, the public fountain
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The Byzantine-era Blue Church on the north slope above Petra
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Border in Byzantine church where the Petra scrolls were found
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Surveying Petra from the Temple of the Winged Lions
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Temple of the Winged Lions
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A modern-day centurian guards the gate to the colonnaded Roman road
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Looking back at the tombs along the east wall of the valley
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The tombs closer up
