First glimpses of Petra
admin September 4th, 2007
Syerah, from Toronto, kept a blog of her travel in the Middle East and has this particularly evocative description of her arrival at Petra.
The Siq twists and turns, the high walls all but shutting out the early morning sunlight, until abruptly, through a cleft in the rock, the first glimpse of the city of Petra can be seen. Carved out of pale reddish sandstone, ornate pillars supporting a portico surmounted by a central urn and two flanking blocks, jut out from the cliff face ahead. This is the Khazneh or the Treasury.
Glad you didn’t fall off that camel, Syerah.
