Petra, Wadi Musa, Southern JORDAN

My flight from Bahrain to Sharjah (UAE) went smooth and after a 5 hour wait, I left Sharjah at 01:00 for a quick 2.5 hour flight on Air Arabia to Amman, Jordan.....well, that 2.5 hours ended up being 12 hours!!! We were 7 minutes from landing at Amman Airport at almost 3:30 am when the pilot told us we will abort landing (due to poor weather) and instead land 35 minutes north of Amman in Damascus, Syria. To make a very long story short...we spent 11 hours sitting around at the Damascus airport...with every move of all passengers going wrong....but eventually we landed at Amman at 2pm this afternoon. We were all very tired...but in the process made many new friends from around the world.

I went to downtown Amman and took the first minibus to Wadi Musa...the little town next to Petra. Petra is an archaeological site in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by a the Swiss explorer in 1812.

Tomorrow and the day after I will spend photographing this large and extraordinary archaeological site.

But first....I need to get sleeeeeppppp. I am dead dead tired. Nite.

The girl to the right is a Bedouin girl, nomadic, and currently living in a cave with her family.