Petra-osterone‏

Hands down Petra was THE best ancient city I have EVER seen. It pretty much shat on Macchu Picchu, Ephesus, Pompeii, every Egyptian monument and the underground cities of Cappadocia. It's an incredibly well preserved 2,000 year old mega city in which over 20,000 people once lived. They lived in a city carved out of the same candy striped multicoloured rock we hiked through at Dana NAture Reserve. We loved it, and can't possibly capture it on film or with words. Impossible!

But the people we met along the way today, and those that FOLLOWED us along our way, had us in stitches, blushing and yelling. I think being practically the only two single girls under 55 in the whole of Petra didn't help us. Brooke argues that it is actually her Guatemalan heat and the locals are in fact only human! I disagree naturally :).

During our 10 hour visit some of the conversation highlights were:
Them: Did it hurt? Us: ????? Them: When you fell from heaven?
Mohammed: Come and see the stars from my cave - I am crazy Bedouin
No name riding camel: Hot tea? (whilst pointing at crotch)
15 year old donkey boy: I smell you and I am happy.....I can't stop looking at you, when I close my eyes I can see you in my mouth. Brooke: Go home to your mother!
No name Horse whisperer: For you free, I just want to see tourist riding my horse
Ishmail: I WILL find you
Allah: I will catch you like an eagle
Old moustached dude: Hey, you dropped something... Us: ????? Old moustached dude: My heart!

The testosterone ranging in suitors from 15-50 was oozing as thick as the sludge at the bottom of a Jordanian coffee - and that's thick! :)

We're off to see a candlelit 'Petra by night' now and potentially throwing ourselves laughing back into the wolves. Apparently (as we were told several times last night) once you've had black you never go back! Yes, eeeewwwwww. Obviously we are taking all this attention seriously and expect it from Australian men as soon as we return.

Off to sleep in the desert of Wadi Rum tomorrow night starting from Petra at 6am to get there and then a full day back to Amman to see Jerash - the largest Roman ruin city in the middle east before our last night together. Brooke is heading to Turkey and I'm spending another full day in Cairo before the same long flight back to Vegas. We've had a very cruisy and hilarious time together and already planning our hike of Mt Kilimanjaro next time. But that would mean Brooke would have to start training, and she says...'Inshallah'

Be in touch post desert campfire Bedouin experience....

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