28th - 30th October 2015
Petra by Night |
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The Siq |
The Treasury |
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Petra by night music |
Petra by night music: movie |
Leaving the Treasury |
Leaving Petra |
Petra by Day |
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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 |
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“Djin blocks” |
The easy way in |
The Obelisk Tomb |
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Greek text above a tomb |
Start of the Siq, with remains of an arch |
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The Siq |
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Bush growing by a water channel |
Colours of the rock |
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Remains of a pipe |
Roman/Nabatean road surface |
Remains of a carving of a merchant with two camels |
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Approaching The Treasury |
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The Treasury |
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Composite of The Treasury |
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Treasury composite |
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Camels in front of The Treasury |
The Treasury’s chamber |
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Tourists, camels and “Nabateans” in front of The Treasury |
Jordanian “park police” officer in full regalia in front of The Treasury |
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The Outer Siq |
Rock colours |
The Street of Façades |
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Camels in front of The Theatre |
Street of Façades panorama |
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Tourist police |
Mountain donkey and tombs |
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The Theatre |
Façades |
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Coloured and eroded rocks |
4-legged transport |
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The Theatre panorama |
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The Theatre and tombs |
The Urn Tomb |
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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 |
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The Qasr al-Bint temple |
Carved temple block |
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Excavated Nabatean pottery fragments |
Temenos (temple precinct) and the Royal Tombs from the Qasr al-Bint |
Altar of the Qasr al-Bint temple |
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Recent excavations near Qasr al-Bint |
Basel pointing out a carved column capital |
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The Great Temple panorama |
The Great Temple |
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The Colonnaded Street, The Great Temple and Qasr al-Bint temple |
The Royal Tombs and Petra panorama |
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The Great Temple |
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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 |
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Panorama of the valley below the Urn tomb |
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The Colonnaded Street and temples |
The Palace tomb |
The Corinthian tomb |
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Steps up to the Urn Tomb |
The Urn Tomb |
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Bedouin family selling rugs |
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Pam & Bob Mackey near the Urn Tomb |
Street of Façades |
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The Treasury |
Tourist at The Treasury |
Farewell to The Treasury |
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The Obelisk Tomb |
“Djin blocks” and tombs |
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Atrium of the Petra Mövenpick hotel |
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On the way to “Little Petra” |
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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 |
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Panorama 2 of Petra from the road to Little Petra |
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Dwellings on the way to Little Petra |
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Al Beidha, “Little Petra” |
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Bedouin tent near entrance to Little Petra |
Entrance to Little Petra site, with souvenir shops (and a camel) |
A façade, Little Petra |
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Rooms in the rock |
The siq |
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Looking out of a room |
Rock-cut stairs |
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Basel explains to Pam & Bob |
The “Painted House” |
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Ceiling in the “Painted House” |
Steps out of the town to (inaccurately) “The Best View in the World” |
Visitors to Little Petra |
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Little Petra information (and musician) |
Outside Little Petra |