There was a cold wind blowing when I got up to take some photos. We got away pretty early, stopping at an ATM before reaching Petra at 9:30. It took us about it 1.5hrs to walk down through the gorge to the famous Treasury building which is actually a royal mausoleum. In fact the whole place is full of tombs of the Nabataeans from C3 BC. Our guide left us to wander on our own which we did. As it is Friday schools are closed and there were lots of pint-sized peddlers, some who looked only about 3 or 4. We made our way slowly down to the temple before we decided that this was far enough and we headed back. Since David has a cold and is feeling miserable, and I'm never one for walking up, we had decided to pay for a ride back to the gate. The bus took off for Amman at 14:45 Middle East summer time.
Most of us had a bit of a snooze then we stopped at a road house /gift shop along the way and got to the hotel at 18:15.
At 19:00 we went to a local restaurant them all came home to bed.
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