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Petra is one of the best places to visit in the world
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Where is Petra ?
The Petra one of the most prestigious sites of Jordan and the most attractive for visitors from all over the world, and the city of Petra is located about 250 km south of Amman - capital of Jordan, to the west of the main road that connects between Amman and Aqaba on the coast of Aqaba Gulf on the Red Sea.
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what is petra ?
from more from two thousand years old Nabataean Arabs, that coming from the Arabian Peninsula lived in Petra.In view of its impregnable position which facilitates defense, the Nabataeans made it a fortress and they have taken the royal capital of their state. Petra still to this day bear the stamp of nomadism, considering visitors standing up horses and camels, in order to enter to it in the trip remain in memory throughout the lifespan.
Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans, which lasted between 400 BC to 106 AD, which stretched from the coast of Ashkelon in Palestine in the west to the desert of the Levant in the east.Due to its average between civilizations of Mesopotamia the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, state Nabataeans had held the reins of trade between civilizations these areas and population and commercial convoys were reaching to it loaded with spices and condiments from the southern Arabian Peninsula and silk from Gaza and Damascus and henna from Ashkelon and glassware from Tyre and Sidonand pearls from the Arabian Gulf.
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Petra features
The city of Petra is being dug in the "Wadi Musa"
rock
pink, and so called the pink city. A city are integrated , tourist can see where all the basic features of the city, from "safe" (House of the judgment) to
public
terraced that built for ceremonies and public meetings, to "court" and places of worship, and even the homes of its people that dug in its pink colored rock .
Siq :
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Visitor can reach to the heart of the pink city, walking on his feet, or on the back of the horse, or in horse-drawn carriage, across the
terrible
"Siq" . It's a huge incision thousand meters long, one surmises that both sides of the Beaufort rock at the top, and at an altitude of 300 meters, as if they were touching each other.
When Siq draws to a close, it bends in the rotated sideways, then cloudy shadows to thaw suddenly, she believes the greatest scenes splendor swim in the sunlight. It's safe, one of the wonders of the universe unique. And dug by hand in the
deaf
rock interface the mountain Alohm, up 140 meters and width of 90 meters.
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