Check your boots for scorpions! A different route to Petra
admin June 27th, 2007
Just as there are many ways to crack a nut (hint: some of us favour dynamite), so there are many different ways to get to Petra. Jeremy Seal, writing in the Sunday Times found a very round about route to the rose red city, involving a desert trek, Bedouin trails and camping out under the stars in newly-created eco-lodges.
This is unrivalled walking, and not only for the dizzying views of the mountains and the Wadi Araba far below. Immersion in the local history, culture and geology is providing us with an illuminating context for the city we’re approaching. You can’t miss the fact that we’re closing upon Petra: it is sneak-previewed in the ancient rock-cut water channel that leads us one morning to the ruins of the village it once served, and in the colours and shapes of the surreal eroded sandstone that overhangs our path like molten wax or fresh tears.
You can retrace Jeremy’s steps on a Gorges amd Petra trek with Walks Worldwide.
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