Jordan - Petra

If you want to read the pictures in the correct order start from the end and work your way up. sort of like reading the Hebrew script, backwards haha

Standing on top of the ridges that look down into Petra.

Finally my camel ride and for only 3 dinars (~4.50$)

A great view looking from the top of the gorge to the ground.

The infamous Treasury of Petra. One of the few well intact facades left on the mountain walls. The rest have been worn away by sand sun water and wind.

The entrance to see the Treasury building was quite intimidating. small gaping crevices lead you to slowly unveil the enormous facade of this building.

Heading into one of the wonders of the world. Keeping in mind the last remaining ancient wonder of the world is the great pyramid at Giza, so in 2007 the list was revised to include existing structures. One of which was Petra. (An ancient spice trade route stop from India to the roman empire, through Arabia and the red sea into modern day land of Israel ending in Gaza where it would then be shipped to Rome.

These guys were all over the city. Either the people like them or the people are forced to like them. but from what locals and our tour guide said it seems as if the Jordanian Government provides well for its people. Not luxury but at least a life.

Our day takes us into Jordan. One of the wonders of the Arab world hhahah not as small as UAE but not as important as Saudi Arabia.

Swimming in Eilat

Eilat was one of the most amazing cities I have been to. Jerusalem we all know is the center of the world. But as Dividl tells us, 'the jewish people go to Jerusalem to pray and come to Eilat to play!'

The area reminded me of home in Miami, with the nice beaches and warm water, the bars and music in the background. the only difference is I cant see the Bahamas or Cuba from the beach but in Eilat you can see four different countries just by sitting in the water. Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. What an experience.

Swimming was a lot of fun because the water was perfect temperature although later in the night it dropped down to be cool very quickly. we sat in the water no lie from like 430 to 830 and kept
having our waiter bring us drinks.

Then we even got to have a great enormous dinner with fried fish, salads, drinks and all right on the water. It was an experience to have had dinner right on the red sea as the sun was going down over the Egyptian and Israeli mountains.

If I was to ever come back to Israel, This city would be High on my priority because there's not many cities like this especially with 4 countries on all sides, enormous coral reefs, and a culture unlike any other in the world. after all it is the "Jewish State of Israel".

Sourthern Israel

Southern Israel was a lot less vegetated. It was the Negev, The Desert! hahaah there was sand and mountains everywhere. We passed by the dead sea but were returning later this week to swim and put mud all over ourselves.

The first thing we did when we arrived in Eilat was to go to the underwater observatory. The red sea is full of HUGE beautiful coral reefs. and this whole area from aqaba, Jordan, eilat, Israel, and taba Egypt are lined with miles of live and vivid reefs.

The aquarium was like any others you go to but they have an entire observatory structure under the water right in the middle of the reefs. Amazing sites.

We spent some time at the center of the city and the beaches. and were getting ready for petra the next day.

On the way back up we made a couple of stops in the desert like the 'crater', Ben Gurions house (their George Washington), and even a drip system factory for irrigation. All very interesting but we were exhausted and hurting from the ride up. But we did drive through an active military zone with huge tanks and weapons fields! There were even military guys in the McDonald's!