Fresh off the plane and the temperature is somewhere in the mid-thirties, a shock after living on my permafrost street in Queenstown - and this stream is actually a hot spring!
Beautiful colours and at least the canyon provides plenty of shade
Just a magical place
Greenery in the desert
Close-up of the canyon walls
Swimming in the Dead Sea
Close up of the Dead Sea
So salty you can actually see it - it stings too when you get in!
Entering Petra
Entering Petra
Entering Petra
Camel's waiting for rides at the treasury - so colourful
One of the off the beaten paths parts of Petra
Riding mules around Petra
The Jordanian flag in Petra and Wadi Musa the modern town just out of ancient Petra
Flowers in the desert in Petra
Petra Lion on one of the lesser travelled paths in Petra
My first time seeing the absolutely stunning colour of the rock in Petra
Incredible carving in incredible rock! - Petra
Petra - just Petra
The textures are also amazing
Textures of Petra
Isolated parts of Petra
Main parts of Petra
When the cat rides the donkey behind you
Trust me to go to an amazing tourist location and take photos of cats
The Monastry
Cairns - the international language of 'it's this way'
The Monastery in Petra
Quite a cool viewpoint
Camel trains at the end of the day to transport tourists out of the park
Nymphaeum
Silhouette in Petra
Most of the camel might be gone, but you can still make out his feet
Unique perspectives on the Treasury - as the first amazing carving encountered it's very hard to get a view with many tourist present.
Camel all dressed up for working with tourists
Pair of mules in Petra
View straight down over the main thoroughfare of Petra
It was a long walk and it turns out you had to pay for the final view, but pretty much that's the only way to see the treasury without 100's of other people.
The rock is stunning
Wadi Rum is a desert - but instead of going to camp in it like most people, we decided to do a trip up and over Jebel Rum instead. It was incredible.
It gets more otherwordly as we climb above it
The erosion patterns in the rock were so cool
And the climbing begins
Up we go
This ledge is pretty high and gets pretty narrow towards the end
Desert panorama
More interesting erosion patterns. Does the rock erode this way because of the pebbles or do the pebbles just end up in the holes?
Max looking at how far we've come
Erosion octopus!
View as we near the summit of Jebel Rum
Climbing the final summit rock
The summit is painted with the Jordanian flag
What a beautiful evening view!
I was supposed to be helping to look for somewhere to camp, but it was just so stunning
Sunset begins
I've never seen a sunset quite like this!
Seriously this is incredible
Still going
Of course we had a wee campfire to make dinner tonight
Our sweet little campsite that we found under this roof, with all the lights from the desert camps behind
Last star of the morning
Morning campfire for a cup of tea
Sunrise - like sunset!
Sunrise from Jebel Rum
Max with his campfire at sunrise
Max at sunrise
Sun rises over Max
Just look at that sun!
Admiring the end of the sunrise
Early morning light streaming through the rocks at Wadi Rum
Such a cool and strange place
Shannon looking for the way down
Found it! Or at least one of the ~7 abseils on the way down. We think we did pretty well given that the map we had wasn't in a language that any of us spoke
Down in the canyon
Max looking up at where we came from
Making our way down the canyon - not far to go, just one more abseil and we made it just in the nick of time to head home!
