Leaving Little Petra, we made our approach over to Petra by way of a stop-off for lunch, as after we arrived again in Petra we might be in search of a viewpoint that we’d seen so many instances in images and movies (earlier than arriving in Petra).
As apparent as the perspective appeared, we had no thought how one can discover it and so armed with images of it, we employed a neighborhood information to attempt to take us there.
Our information ended up being a teenage boy who knew this entire place just like the again of his hand.
He quickly had us scrambling by means of these large boulders making our strategy to the highest of the hill simply above Petra.
The upper we climbed, the scarier it acquired, and by the point we arrived on the viewpoint, with the carpet all laid out earlier than us, my concern of heights was in full overdrive.
I nonetheless don’t know what possessed us to go forward and take these images on the viewpoint as a result of after we did it, we simply realised how ridiculously unsafe it was.
There are different viewpoints like this lots decrease down and simpler to get to however this one right here is simply ridiculous.
It’s a sheer drop, and our recommendation would positively be so that you can keep away from doing it.
Plus, the view from the underside is arguably extra spectacular anyway.
As soon as we had been completed right here, we retraced our steps again in the direction of the place we got here up the canyon, however as a substitute of taking place, we went round to take a look at the opposite components of Petra we maybe would have missed out on in any other case.
There was one other harrowing bit at one doing as we made our approach over to the alternative aspect of the place we’d simply been however after that, the whole lot else was fairly simple.
And by simple, I don’t imply simple.
You’re nonetheless mountaineering up within the mountains however no less than there was nothing that triggered any of our concern of heights.
The panorama up right here by the best way is simply completely beautiful and also you get such a unique appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra buildings that you just positively would have missed out on should you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being stated, there are positively lots much less scary methods to seek out your approach up right here (like the best way we went again down felt like a significantly better possibility for getting up right here and even got here with stairs).
Ultimately, we determined to cease for a second to absorb the solar slowly beginning to dip and get ourselves some tea at a tiny little shack we discovered on the high.
Additionally, full disclosure, the explanation why we had been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it is because they’re boiled and piping sizzling which alleviated any considerations of we would have had in any other case in regards to the supply of the water.
Additionally, its value noting that none of us had any tummy points after ingesting any of those teas so you can also make of that what you’ll. Hehe!
After our teas, we began on the simplest a part of the hike thus far, the journey again down.
I do know plenty of folks actually don’t like downhill mountaineering but it surely’s like one among my favorite issues to do.
Uphill mountaineering I battle with and can be one of many slowest in any group (I simply discover that I have to take my time a bit extra with that) however downhill?
Oh, I’ll be on the quickest particular person in any group. Hehe!
This may really be our last day of the journey in Petra earlier than we would depart for the desert the following day and so we needed to take a second after we acquired to the underside to soak up the sweetness that’s Petra within the sundown.
Someway, at the present time that was alleged to be stress-free had turned out to be some of the lively ones we’d had thus far and positively some of the rewarding as we uncovered facets of this historical misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Ultimately, we made our approach again to the doorway, by way of the unimaginable canyon the place we discovered a bar to toast to how superb Petra had been.
See you in Wadi Rum within the subsequent put up.
It’s a spot you already know even should you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so might Hollywood films.
However, like I stated, extra on that within the subsequent put up. 😁😁
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