Petra

28^th - 30^th October 2015

Petra by Night
The Siq		The Treasury
Petra by night music	Petra by night music: movie	Leaving the Treasury	Leaving Petra
Petra by Day
Courtyard inside site entrance	Stables	Path into Petra	Landscape, with Shrine of Aaron on Jabal Haroun in the background
“Djin blocks” / “god blocks” with tombs in the background	“Djin block” and tombs	Tombs
“Djin blocks”	The easy way in	The Obelisk Tomb
	Greek text above a tomb	Start of the Siq, with remains of an arch
The Siq
		Bush growing by a water channel	Colours of the rock
Remains of a pipe	Roman/Nabatean road surface	Remains of a carving of a merchant with two camels
	Approaching The Treasury
The Treasury
Composite of The Treasury
Treasury composite
Camels in front of The Treasury			The Treasury’s chamber
	Tourists, camels and “Nabateans” in front of The Treasury	Jordanian “park police” officer in full regalia in front of The Treasury
The Outer Siq	Rock colours	The Street of Façades
Camels in front of The Theatre	Street of Façades panorama
		Tourist police	Mountain donkey and tombs
The Theatre	Façades
	Coloured and eroded rocks		4-legged transport
The Theatre panorama
The Theatre and tombs	The Urn Tomb
L-R: The Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, the Silk Tomb	L-R: The Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, the Silk Tomb, the Urn Tomb	The Colonnaded Street	The Colonnaded Street and tombs
The Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, the Silk Tomb, and The Urn Tomb, from the Colonnaded Street	The Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, and the Silk Tomb, from the Colonnaded Street	The Great Temple	???
The Qasr al-Bint temple			Carved temple block
Excavated Nabatean pottery fragments	Temenos (temple precinct) and the Royal Tombs from the Qasr al-Bint		Altar of the Qasr al-Bint temple
	Recent excavations near Qasr al-Bint	Basel pointing out a carved column capital
The Great Temple panorama			The Great Temple
The Colonnaded Street, The Great Temple and Qasr al-Bint temple	The Royal Tombs and Petra panorama
			The Great Temple
Tombs, and playful dogs	The Great Temple, donkey and tombs	Wadi	Bob & Pam Mackey, the Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, and friend
The Palace Tomb, the Corinthian Tomb, the Silk Tomb, and part of the Urn Tomb panorama			Valley below the Urn tomb
Panorama of the valley below the Urn tomb
The Colonnaded Street and temples	The Palace tomb	The Corinthian tomb
		Steps up to the Urn Tomb	The Urn Tomb
			Bedouin family selling rugs
Pam & Bob Mackey near the Urn Tomb	Street of Façades
The Treasury	Tourist at The Treasury		Farewell to The Treasury
The Obelisk Tomb		“Djin blocks” and tombs
Atrium of the Petra Mövenpick hotel
On the way to “Little Petra”
Dwellings and ruined castle (background) on the way to Little Petra	Landscape on the way to Little Petra	Ruined castle on the way to Little Petra	Long view of ruined castle on the way to Little Petra
Petra from the road to Little Petra	Panorama 1 of Petra from the road to Little Petra
Panorama 2 of Petra from the road to Little Petra
Dwellings on the way to Little Petra
Al Beidha, “Little Petra”
Bedouin tent near entrance to Little Petra		Entrance to Little Petra site, with souvenir shops (and a camel)	A façade, Little Petra
Rooms in the rock	The siq
Looking out of a room		Rock-cut stairs
	Basel explains to Pam & Bob		The “Painted House”
Ceiling in the “Painted House”	Steps out of the town to (inaccurately) “The Best View in the World”	Visitors to Little Petra
	Little Petra information (and musician)	Outside Little Petra