Soon after the Treasury you walk out of the Siq to the main city of Petra. I will be quoting the Petra map given to us at the Visitor Center at the start of the tour to describe each location. Our tour guide only took us as far as the Winged-Lion Temple. I honestly can’t…
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Petra, Jordan – Part IV – The Siq’s Beautiful Sandstone Walls & Its Relics of Petra’s Past
The Siq is 1.2 km long with beautiful, pinkish sandstone walls! Our guide told us that the darker colored areas are the result of wind erosion. The Jack Sparrow lookalike is a Petra Bedouin! What is amazing is that the road along the Siq is paved. Our guide pointed this out, but I can’t quite…
Petra, Jordan – Part II – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Location of Indy’s Horse Gallop Through the Siq
As we moved along the Siq, our guide told us this section of the gorge is the movie location where Indy gallops through the rock formations after Marcus’s bolting horse in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! I loved that scene, watching Indy gallop on a beautiful horse decorated in Arabic tradition, through these exotic rock formations! What an…