Thanks guys, glad you're still enjoying it.
Still in Petra we head up one of the mountain paths, it's quite a climb and being a couple of seniors, both suffering from heavy colds, it was some climb that seemed to take forever, maybe a couple of hours.
1. As we start the climb we pass tombs carved from the rock face.
2. A short break in the climb to look back and admire the view. Note the tombs on the left are the ones in the first photo.
3. Still a long way to climb. Some accounts say as many as 700 steps.
4. The view from whence we came.
5 6. Another set of tombs carved out of the rock and we are quite high up the climb now so I took a high up view and the zoomed in view.
7. The view from the top under the shade of a welcome tree. Take note of the tree for you will see it again.
8 9. On the climb down we yet again pass more tombs, this time on the other side of the mountain. The second shows the diverse and brilliant colour of the rock.
10. Remember the tree, that's it at the mountain top in the centre.
11. Some of the local colour grazing happily. The green leaves are wild tulips which are vjust past their prime.
12. We are now at the base and after a refreshing (expensive) drink in some shade we are on our way through the valley back towards the gorge.
13. This is an amphitheatre carved out of the rock, the steps are well worn and consequently it's closed to the public.
14. More tomb carving and rock colour.
15. Here we are back at the 'Treasury'. It was getting late and we still had an hour's walk out of the gorge and back to the hotel. A cuppa of mint tea was looking good.