Petra and donkey BMW

I'm glad to say that my nose itch has gone away and even more happy that the hotel worker who fell down the stairs came back to work a few hours later and is just fine minus the 2 black eyes.


Hiked inside the Petra monument park today and learned that it is considered by some to be the 8th wonder of the world. I think this is just blowing smoke up the tourists ass but the park was very beautiful and great weather. What the other 7 wonders are?

Petra is a huge national park type place with miles and miles of hiking trails with gorgeous caves and elaborate temples carved into the side of rock mountains. This is where some parts of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed. Up until a couple years back native Jordanian wanderer types called Bedouins lived in the caves full time. The Jordanian King kicked them out and resettled them to nearby villages. Now they walk in every day and try to sell you stuff such as Donkey Taxi rides, bracelets and bottles of water. Young kids are the ones trying to sell you on the donkey rides with promises of "air conditioning", "Donkey BMW", "Donkey Ferrari". I was holding out for Donkey Honda Civic so no rides were had.

Petra was amazing and we had a great day hiking from 9am till 4pm. Sweating in the sun and taking in the beauty.


Tomorrow depart for Aman, the capital of Jordan and our cab driver told us that there is plenty to do there including lots of American restaurants, TGI Friday's, Chili's etc. I'm really hoping that there is a Taco Bell as I've been craving a Nacho Supreme for the last couple of months.