Jordan: Amman and Petra
By Dallas Smith
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Petra: The Treasury (detail).
Landscape outside Amman between Jordan & Israel.
Sea Level marker--Looking across the Dead Sea valley toward Israel--the lowest point on earth.
Nabatean
Amman (seen through dirty hotel window).
Slot Canyon.
Amman (seen through dirty hotel window).
Slot Canyon entrance to Petra.
Bedouin tribesman (photographed within Petra site).
Obelisks--tombs in Egyption style.
First glimpse of the Treasury.
Susan with driver Mazen's wife, Sana.
Petra Wall of Tombs.
After-dinner tea with Mazen and Sana.
Tomb (partial view).
Arab man in traditional clothing.
More Tombs--Wall carvings are Nabatean, Arches in front are Roman additions.
Petra janitors take a break.
Mazen barbeques kabobs.
Treasury entrance (detail) with period costume Nabatean soldiers and a camel for rent.
The Treasury--showing the rock wall into which it was carved.