Petra

Petra is the treasure of the ancient world, behind almost impenetrable barrier to the rugged mountains, boasting incomparable scenes that make it stand majestic and set the old site yet .. It has been said "perhaps there is nothing in the world to be" Why, this is because there is nothing in the world like it. He carved the rock of the pink city of Petra is full of mysterious charm, it was "designed to strike wonder to all who have come to it."

Petra is considered the most famous and gorgeous site in Jordan located about 262 km south of Amman and 133 km north of Aqaba. There is a legacy of Nabataeans, industrious Arab people who were in southern Jordan more than 2000 years. Being astonished, he was a fine culture, great architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra now UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, where visitors from all over the world, however, a miracle. 
Through the entry to the kilometer long, cold and sad gap in long narrow gorge, of which all the parts of DECLINE soaring, but the Sun provides a dramatic contrast to magic, to come. Suddenly, as a hostage to the natural rock's most famous monument, the Treasury (El-Khazneh), inseparable ends illuminated facade carved into the bright sun dominatesAdd facades to attract visitors to the ancient city gradually unfolds, one monument to. Next mile after mile the sheer size of the city and the quality of beautifully carved facades is staggering and leads to consider the creativity and industry Nabataeans who made Petra their capital. 
Petra is always breathtaking, and never forget. Rome flourished over 400 years Christ (peace be upon him), but in the Roman legions of the Emperor Trajan in AD 106.
Is the rock of the sheep market a pool, which is more than 800 individual monuments, including buildings, tombs, baths, funerary goods, halls, temples, archways and colonnaded streets, that were mostly carved from mottled TUFF from the technical and artistic genius of its inhabitants.In the morning and late in the day, when the sun heats the rock of the chasm between the best multi-colored stones, you are able to see the majesty of Petra as it seems for the first time, can be found as 1812, after the loss of 16 Century, almost 300 years!

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