Sarah Travel Diary - Petra Jordan ( one of the wonders of the world) Part one

Well I never thought I would ever go to Jordan it wasnt really one of the places I had ever wished to go but wow what an amazing place. It is said to be one of the wonders of the world. Its this amazing place which has been built out of cliffs and gorges and its so hard to explain really what it is like.. Harrison Ford did film a triology of films of course very famously. Petra* UNESCO World Heritage Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Treasury at Petra State Party Jordan Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, iv Reference 326 Region** Arab States Inscription history Inscription 1985 (9th Session) * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO. Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor[1] in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The Nabataeans constructed it as their capital city around 100 BCE.[2] The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the West by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon ...