Private Day Tour To Petra From Aqaba

etra for Around 2 Hrs, In Petra, you will visit: - Al-Siq, The Treasury, Colonnaded Street, Ad-Deir, High Place of Sacrifice, Great Temple, Royal Tombs, Temple of Dushares (Qasr el Bint), Street of Facades, Byzantine Church. After visiting Petra drive you to the restaurant to eat Lunch, Drive you back to the same Meeting Point, and if the driver Pickup you up from your Hotel in Aqaba, he will drive you back to your Hotel in Aqaba.

Walking the length of the Siq is approximately 3/4 of a mile, and is a very nice walk. Leaving the Siq and first seeing Petra is absolutely

Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times. As with most of the other buildings in this ancient town, including the Monastery, this structure was carved out of a sandstone rock face.

The columns are a bit worse for wear, but the architectural intentions of the colonnaded street are clearly evident. All Roman cities had a central Forum which was a public area in which business, civic affairs, and religious ceremonies were conducted.

Similar in design to the Treasury but far bigger (50m wide and 45m high), it was built in the 3rd century BCE as a Nabataean tomb. It derives its name from the crosses carved on the inside walls, suggestive of its use as a church in Byzantine times. The ancient rock-cut path of more than 800 steps starts from the Basin Restaurant and follows the old processional route.