Strictly speaking I should show you my shoes, but this display I captured while 'drive-by shooting' from our tour bus here in Jordan looks far more interesting than a pair of dusty Ecco Mary-Janes.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Karak
Crusader knights and horses were on our minds when we visited the castle at Kerak this morning.
Riding a camel backwards
That's how my cameleer took these shots of me. Good for a giggle ;-)
I think he's done this once or twice already, don't you?
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Petra (3)
Photos of some of our happy travelers.
Greta
Elizabeth
Barbara
Bev
That Woman again ;-))
Catriona, Bev and Peter the day before at Wadi Rum
Petra (2)
Come with us as we make our way slowly along the road that winds through this glorious rose-red city carved from the stone cliffs.
Take a donkey if walking's not for you.
Do a spot of shopping, or climb the steps to the royal tombs.
Even visit Marguerite van Geldermalsen, Australian author of "I Married a Bedouin".
Petra (1)
We made the half kilometer walk from the gate to the top of the siq in crisp morning sunshine. It's still very cold here, in fact it snowed in Petra last week and the whole site was closed.
The siq, a winding narrow path through the rock canyon, is the only way into and out of Petra, and is a photographer's paradise. The rock formations above our shadowy way gleamed in the morning sun, revealing shades of red (iron), yellow (sulphur) and black (manganese).
You would think I'd be used to it by my third visit to Petra, but there's still nothing to compare with that first stunning glimpse of the Treasury through the rock opening. It just blows me away!
Wadi Rum (3)
As the shadows lengthened we drive on to our final stop, the encampment where Lawrence of Arabia spent time in 1917, where we saw a carving of the great man himself (looking nothing at all like Peter O'Toole!)
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