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My big goal is one step away from achieving.
See here the trip to discover the 7 wonders of the modern world.
After 3 years of postponement due to the pandemic, I finally got to meet Petra.
When we talk about Petra, images of the eastern entrance to Petra usually come to mind, a 76-meter-high sandstone gorge known as the Siq that leads directly to Al Khazneh (the Treasury).
Who hasn’t seen Indiana Jones?
However, it is just one of the city’s many monuments.
Carved directly into the red, white, pink and sandstone cliffs, the prehistoric city of Petra has been “lost” to the Western world for hundreds of years.
Petra was once a prosperous commercial center and the capital of the Nabataean empire between 400 BC and 106 AD.
The Nabataeans, before being conquered and absorbed by the Roman Empire, controlled a vast area of the Middle East, from present-day Israel and Jordan to the north of the Arabian Peninsula. The remains of its innovative water collection, storage, transportation and irrigation systems networks are still found throughout the area today.
Around 1812, Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, traveling disguised as an Arab, heard about the place and decided to investigate.
In 1985, the Petra Archaeological Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in 2007 it was named one of the new seven wonders of the modern world.
Official website about Petra.
more information about Jordan.