Leaving Little Petra, we made our method over to Petra through a stop-off for lunch, as once we arrived again in Petra we’d be on the lookout for a viewpoint that we’d seen so many occasions in pictures and movies (earlier than arriving in Petra).
As apparent as the point of view appeared, we had no thought how one can discover it and so armed with pictures of it, we employed a neighborhood information to attempt to take us there.
Our information ended up being a teenage boy who knew this complete place just like the again of his hand.


He quickly had us scrambling by means of these enormous boulders making our solution to the highest of the hill simply above Petra.
The upper we climbed, the scarier it obtained, and by the point we arrived on the viewpoint, with the carpet all laid out earlier than us, my worry of heights was in full overdrive.


I nonetheless don’t know what possessed us to go forward and take these pictures on the viewpoint as a result of after we did it, we simply realised how ridiculously unsafe it was.
There are different viewpoints like this lots decrease down and simpler to get to however this one right here is simply ridiculous.
It’s a sheer drop, and our recommendation would positively be so that you can keep away from doing it.
Plus, the view from the underside is arguably extra spectacular anyway.
As soon as we had been performed right here, we retraced our steps again in direction of the place we got here up the canyon, however as a substitute of taking place, we went round to take a look at the opposite elements of Petra we maybe would have missed out on in any other case.
There was one other harrowing bit at one doing as we made our method over to the alternative aspect of the place we’d simply been however after that, every part else was fairly easy.
And by easy, I don’t imply simple.
You’re nonetheless climbing up within the mountains however a minimum of there was nothing that triggered any of our worry of heights.
The panorama up right here by the best way is simply completely attractive and also you get such a special appreciation for Petra from right here.
You additionally get to see so many extra buildings that you simply positively would have missed out on in the event you simply caught to the trail on the backside, although with that being mentioned, there are positively lots much less scary methods to seek out your method up right here (like the best way we went again down felt like a a lot better choice for getting up right here and even got here with stairs).
Finally, we determined to cease for a second to take in the solar slowly beginning to dip and get ourselves some tea at a tiny little shack we discovered on the prime.


Additionally, full disclosure, the explanation why we had been okay with ingesting teas and coffees like it is because they’re boiled and piping scorching which alleviated any issues of we’d have had in any other case concerning the supply of the water.
Additionally, its price noting that none of us had any tummy points after ingesting any of those teas so you may make of that what you’ll. Hehe!
After our teas, we began on the simplest a part of the hike up to now, the journey again down.
I do know a lot of individuals actually don’t like downhill climbing nevertheless it’s like one in all my favorite issues to do.
Uphill climbing I wrestle with and will probably be one of many slowest in any group (I simply discover that I must take my time a bit extra with that) however downhill?
Oh, I’ll be on the quickest particular person in any group. Hehe!
This might really be our remaining day of the journey in Petra earlier than we would depart for the desert the subsequent day and so we needed to take a second once we obtained to the underside to soak up the sweetness that’s Petra within the sundown.
Someway, today that was alleged to be stress-free had turned out to be one of the crucial energetic ones we’d had up to now and positively one of the crucial rewarding as we uncovered elements of this historical misplaced Kingdom we’d maybe have missed out on in any other case.
Finally, we made our method again to the doorway, through the unimaginable canyon the place we discovered a bar to toast to how superb Petra had been.
See you in Wadi Rum within the subsequent submit.
It’s a spot you already know even in the event you don’t realise it as you’ve seen it so could Hollywood motion pictures.
However, like I mentioned, extra on that within the subsequent submit. 😁😁