Jordan I 

cctv.com 06-17-2005 10:55

Hello everyone, welcome to Travelgoue. my upcoming trip is going to Jordan. Now here is Beijing airport. Let me check on my schedule..Beijing to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Dubai and Dubai to Amman. I am so exciting. I鈥檝e been reading books, checking internet to find out information. Let鈥檚 see what is going on, I can鈥檛 wait. Something is waiting for me over there.

The ancient city of Petra is one of Jordan's national treasures and by far its best known tourist attraction. Located about three hours south of Amman, Petra is the legacy of the Nabataens, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago.

Tour Guide Mr. Marwan Mo鈥檃mmar: Bishara here you can see the human features. You can see clearly two eyes and a nose, but here we don鈥檛 see lips of his face. Because the God doesn鈥檛 talk to people. But one of the Nabatine God named Aimen Hayan has lips because Aimen Hayan is the Thunder God, you can hear the thunders.

And here we see the statue of 鈥淎oluzar鈥and Alouza doesn鈥檛 have any features here. Maybe because the 鈥淣aterians鈥were Arabs and they used to cover their females, They weren鈥檛 supposed to be seen. For this reason, we don鈥檛 see faces of Alouza face at this point.

Over there we see a staircase leads up to a cave. In fact that it is a water system. It used to fill it up with water to do the operation for praying. We are at the center of the Siq.

Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is now a UNESCO world heritage site that enchants visitors from all corners of the globe.

As you can see here, the light color shows the fish also on the other side, you can see a shape of a fossil. It is over there. That cut shows us the spine of an animal was here.

This is the first caravan, the one sitting down in Petra. And you see that is the leader of the camel and you can see a huge man wearing an Nabatine鈥檚 uniform whose carrying a stick in his hand. He鈥檚 wearing a sandal that could be made in China, not in Petra. and over there we see a neck of the camel, from the neck we go to the hump and down to the camels legs and the hooves. And here we see the hooves. As well as we see the middle of the camel here. Further back you see the down part of the camel.

There is another camel?

From here we can see the other two camels. They are to the left hand side above the water channel.