Biggest lesson learned today: Petra is huge!! We took the most hilly, mountainous road into Petra, but we made it. I have no idea how much we hiked, but it was a lot, but also well worth it. The Siq you walk thru to get to the most famous face of Petra, The Treasury is a very cool entrance. When you can start to see the Treasury ahead, it’s an amazing sight.

I saw the third Indiana Jones movie, I thought I knew about Petra – NOPE! This thing is so huge…and there’s more below it.

From the Treasury, we walked/hiked on up to see the other parts of the city and ended up at the top to see the Monestary and the lookout. Let me just say, it was a ton of steps dodging mule droppings, but a very overwhelming sight to take in. I think they said they have only uncovered part of the whole city, it’s huge.

Tonight for dinner, we did something a bit different. We went to Petra Kitchen. It’s a place opened by a Texan woman who lives here in Jordan. She wanted to teach people how to make traditional Jordanian food, so you go and make part of the dinner under guidance from a chef and his team and then get to eat it. We got to make Baba Ganuj and Fatoosh. Afterwards, they gave us a copy of all the recipes used to make the meal – in English with American measurements!

Here’s a link to some of the pictures of the day.

Tomorrow is Little Petra, Wadi Run – where Lawrence of Arabia took place and then to Aqaba.