Monday, May 16, 2016

Petra, Jordan

Petra is an ancient city that are actually counted on the list of this wonder of the world, almost certainly the biggest tourist attraction of Jordan. Petra is positioned on the side of Mount Horin, a huge canyon injury from the Dead Sea and all the way south to the Gulf of the Red Sea.
Al Khazneh ("The Treasury") is almost certainly the best known and most elaborate buildings in Petra, it was built someplace amongst the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, it was bent when the city beneath a heavy Greek and Egyptian influences, and most of the curved specifics had been derived from these cultures. Petra was abandoned and forgotten beneath the desert, when in 1812 the Western planet was introduced to Petra by a Swiss explorer named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. The name - "Petra" is derived from the Greek word "stone" in Arabic there is no equivalent letter or note on the letter P, the name Jordanians there had been -. Batra or Al-Batra pay a visit to

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Next Photo of Petra von Daniel Peckham

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 Al Khazneh, Petra

Al Khazneh, Petra

Next Photo of Petra by Sergey Ershov

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 Al Khazneh, Petra

Al Khazneh, Petra

Subsequent Photo of Petra by Dennis Jarvis

 The Monastery, Petra

The Monastery, Petra

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