Jordan, petra and wadi rum
Petra is one of the world’s most visually stunning archaeological sites, Petra (meaning ‘the rock’ in Greek) is an abandoned necropolis of temples and tombs cut into towering cliffs of red, pink and orange sandstone.
Discovered by the Swiss explorer Jean Louis Bruckhardt who wrote in his diary "it is one of the most elegant remains of antiquity existing". Bruckhardt was the first outsider to cross the Petra's threshold after 600 years (of course the local beduin knew about it...but they kept it secret). |