Shedding light on Petra at night
admin July 22nd, 2007
In a recent Sunday Times travel clinic, Richard Green provided some very useful guidance to a reader who wanted to know more about the Petra by candle light tour.
It’s called ‘Petra by Night’, and currently takes place on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, from about 8:30, and costs £8pp. You can buy tickets from any of the bigger hotels in Wadi Musa (the tourist town near to the site), or the Petra main ticket office. Start times change depending on the season, and it is dependent on enough people booking, so you should book at the first opportunity after you arrive.
And he gives away a little Petra secret:
the light comes from about 1,800 ‘lanterns’ - actually just brown paper bags half full of sand with a tea candles in each, placed there by hand before each tour
So now we know.
