Jordan

On Thursday, we visited Petra and Its amazing 3000 year old Nabataen world heritage site. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade temple episode was filmed here. We were very lucky that we did Petra early in the day with only spotty light rain at times. That night the skies open up and we had high winds and heavy rains. Our hotel was up in the mountains above Petra and we were so socked in you could only see 30 feet in front of you.

Next day we drove to Wadi Rum and took a 4 hour drive with a Bedouin in his 4 Wheel Toyota Jeep. We drove about 72 miles into the mountain desert and saw more Nabataen writings and lots of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia for the movie fans) sites going back to 1914-1917. I took some of these sites with a half truth, like George Washington slept here. Jordan was fascinating.