Ross and Jessie - Thoughts on Jordan & Petra

Ross' Thoughts on Jordan

My expectations for Jordan were low. After going to Egypt I expected Jordan to be just as dirty and crowded. Thankfully I was wrong. We had to walk across the border because you can’t take a rental car between countries. We had to walk 100m across no-man’s land and it felt like someone was going to shoot us right there. After getting across the border we met our taxi driver and headed off to Petra. Jordan is much cleaner than Egypt and there are 6 million people instead of the 80 million in Egypt. We went to a hotel in a town called Wadi Musa 2 km from Petra. The next day we set off at 9am and took a shuttle there. Petra was AMAZING!!! At first you are walking down a valley with carved out stone houses on the sides. The houses aren’t very decorated, it looks like a cave. After that the valley narrows to 4 meters across and 50 meters high! You walk through that for about 30 minutes and then it opens up and there is a huge stone building carved into the rock wall.

It is 50 meters high and the carving is amazing - it looks like the front of the Parthenon and that’s just the beginning. Around the corner there is a huge rock city. You can tell they’re houses but they are all carved into the rock. It looks like a Greek village but completely carved in stone. They had everything - 2 story houses, temples and tombs. If you want to see some, watch Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade and you will see the treasury. I would definitely put this on the bucket list.
Jessie's Thoughts on Jordan 

Jordan and Petra were great. In Petra we saw the monastery and the treasury, they were huge temples carved into the rocks that would have taken hundreds of years to build. Also the rocks and mountains in Petra were amazing. They would reach extraordinary heights; everywhere you look you see something majestic. Another cool thing about Petra is that there is life everywhere, with donkeys and horses this ways and that and huge awesome beautiful camels walking high above you.


In our hotel the “Valley Stars Inn” we had 2 rooms one with a queen which mom is happy about and one for me and Ross with a double.

We watched the news on the TV in both rooms and watched Mubarak’s speech of transferring some power and stayed with the Egyptians until we had to go to dinner. Later at the dinner place our hotel manager came in and told us that Mubarak had stepped down from presidency. That was by far the most exciting part of the trip.

Jessie being attacked by the killer baby goat....