The Old City of Petra 13. Colour and patterns #3

The Old City of Petra

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June 22nd 2010
We get a nice sleep in today as we don’t get collected to go through Petra until 10am. Magid (our driver) literally just walks us across the road to the entry and hands us over to a guide, his job done! Our guide introduces himself, and straight away says we can just call him George, thank goodness because I think his name had a good quantity of the alphabet in it! He says there are 3 different ... read more

Middle East » Jordan » South » Petra

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For most of its history since independence from British administration in 1946, Jordan was ruled by King HUSSEIN (1953-99). A pragmatic ruler, he successfully navigated competing pressures from the major powers (US, USSR, and UK), various Arab states... ... read more