点评:Yes - a bucket list tick to another 7 Wonders of the World!!! Petra is spectacular times a trillion! We went on December 28th, 2023 and there were only about 100 people there - due to the war in Gaza we have heard that tourism is down by 95%, which is such a shame as it was totally safe all over Jordan. The touts were practically non-existent and we weren't hassled at all. Also, the animals that we saw were healthy and well, so don't believe what you read.
There is a comforting police presence and the site is clean and well-organized.
From the moment you enter the Siq canyon you know you are somewhere very special. We really took our time walking down the 20 minute path, drinking in the colorful, striated towering cliffs on either side of us, to the dry, ancient water channels and intermittent carvings... then, WOW, you come out at the famous Treasury!!! It takes your breath away and is almost a little surreal, because you have seen it in so many photos and in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (my husband bought an Indiana Jones whip on the way out!)
After drinking in the Treasury, you walk to your right and enter the outer Siq... then a few meters further and you see the magnificent Theater on your left! Another wow! All around you there are tombs in the cliff walls. We brought our own little picnic lunch from Amman and just sat on a rock by the Theater and just drank it all in! Then you walk a little further and on your right are all the Royal Tombs - really fabulous! Walk up to them and look inside! There are also washrooms along the trail which are clean, with flush toilets and running water.
A little further along still you turn to your left and go downhill to Petra City, with ancient temple ruins and colonnaded streets. It is all so fabulous! All total we stayed for 3 hours. We then got a golf cart at the Treasury back to the entrance - so worth the 15 JD's each. Enjoy, Chris and Elissa Vancouver, Canada
翻译:是的 - 另一个世界七大奇迹的愿望清单!佩特拉壮观十万亿倍!我们是 2023 年 12 月 28 日去的,那里只有大约 100 人 - 由于加沙战争,我们听说旅游业下降了 95%,这真是太遗憾了,因为整个约旦都是完全安全的。兜售几乎不存在,我们根本没有受到困扰。另外,我们看到的动物都很健康,所以不要相信你读到的内容。
有令人欣慰的警察在场,现场干净整洁。
从进入 Siq 峡谷的那一刻起,您就知道自己身处一个非常特别的地方。我们真的花了 20 分钟的时间沿着小路走,一边喝着两边色彩缤纷、有条纹的高耸悬崖,一边欣赏干燥、古老的水道和断断续续的雕刻……然后,哇,你就来到了著名的金库!!!它让你屏息凝神,几乎有点超现实,因为你在很多照片和《夺宝奇兵:最后的十字军东征》中都见过它(我丈夫在出去时买了一根印第安纳琼斯鞭子!)
在Treasury喝完酒后,向右走,进入Siq外层……再往前走几米,就可以看到左边宏伟的剧院了!又一个哇!你周围的悬崖壁上都有坟墓。我们从安曼带了自己的野餐午餐,坐在剧院旁边的一块岩石上,把它全部喝光了!然后再往前走一点,右手边就是所有的皇家陵墓 - 真是太棒了!走到他们面前,看看里面!沿途还有洗手间,干净,有抽水马桶和自来水。
再往前走一点,您向左转,下坡到达佩特拉城,那里有古老的寺庙遗址和柱廊街道。一切都是那么美妙!我们一共呆了3个小时。然后我们在财政部买了一辆高尔夫球车回到入口处——每辆15第纳尔值得。享受吧,克里斯和艾丽莎,加拿大温哥华