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“Travel through Jordan, August 2011”
From Jordan, posted by Arlo Midgett on 8/09/2011 (105 items)
- Our ferry from Neweiba, Egypt to Aqaba, Jordan
- At the McDonald’s in Aqaba… Ramadan score!
- We walked the whole trail in one day No camels for us, yo!
- One of the first impressive carvings you see on the way to Petra
- The animals seemed to be much healthier here than in the parks in Egypt
- Vendor junk
- I made sure to wear my hoop earring today
- Reenactment guys
- Aqueduct
- Oksana posing in the Siq
- Siq
- Light play
- Hard to expose for both the rocks and the floor at midday
- Our favorite cats of the whole trip (so far!)
- "U GOTZ SCRATCHES FOR ME?"
- Purring like a motorboat
- Twins!
- Awww
- There are actually 2 days worth of cat photos here. They were still in the Siq when …
- Looking up
- Horse carriage
- As seen on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- This place is Siq! (I must be the millionth person to make that pun)
- Light Play
- Our first view of the Treasury
- Peeking at the Treasury
- They’re not really guarding it, you know
- Have to shoot up or you can’t get it all in!
- At the gates We couldn’t go in, but from what I could tell, there was no immortal kni…
- Complete with postcard vending kiosk!
- People for scale
- From the right
- From another temple
- Oksana recording memories
- The path continues far, far past the Treasury!
- Tombs? I don’t remember.
- Wooo! FIFA World Cup 1014!
- Sup.
- Arches
- More and more impressive
- Let’s go up!
- Self portrait in Petra
- Solo self portrait!
- Marbled rock
- Looking back uphill
- Cool in the shade
- Vendors spoil the view
- Imagine carving that out
- Inside
- Boing!
- Trick of perspective almost looks like she could stomp on that building down there…
- Impressive temple
- The marbled ceiling I have no idea if this is restoration work or not, but the corner…
- Looking out the doorway
- Looking out the side door
- Vendors, of course
- Hiking down into the Basin
- Taking a break
- Columns
- The arch is still standing!
- The base of the stairs up to the monastery
- Half way there
- Rock formations on the way
- And then we saw the most impressive carving of all…
- Hot, but windy
- Squinty into the sun!
- They wanted too much for water so we didn’t buy any from them!
- Face on
- Looking down into the valley
- From high above, "The Best View in Petra!"
- Oksana getting a snap
- Closeup on the top
- The view behind us
- Looking all the way back the way we came
- The Basin on the way back — the restaurants were closed by then
- Kind of wish we’d paid for a camel at the end of the day…
- Love this place
- Even the less impressive stuff is very impressive
- Setting sun
- The Treasury as we walked past at the end of day 1
- See you tomorrow!
- The next morning we arrived early enough to see the sun play across the Treasury
- So impressive
- Morning sunlight
- I wonder if there’s a time of year when the whole thing is hit by the sunrise. Doubt…
- Look out! Run!! GIANT CAMEL
- Early morning in the Siq
- I guess this was inevitable
- Our drive across Jordan took us through the winding roads of these mountains — very …
- Color Depth
- The Dead Sea "Public Beach."
- Supposedly this mud has health properties
- That’s not us. We didn’t want to pay for it.
- The Dead Sea Float
- We didn’t take any photos; these are video screencaps
- Hard to select frames that show how easy it was to float on the water, but here you g…
- They tell you to stay on your back. We read warnings that said some people have died…
- I wasn’t just kicking my legs… they were just sitting there like that
- If you didn’t keep rolling over, you could easily float with your head out of the wat…
- Almost bouncing out of the water!
- The salt content is so high that your skin tingles when you get in the water. When y…
- You don’t want this water in your mouth. Tastes gross. You especially don’t want it …
- I would HATE to belly-flop on this water!
- Much better for dunking your head under
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