This morning we said good bye to the white desert and headed back towards the road and once more headed towards the Black Desert. On the way we stopped at the so called Crystal Mountain.
Journal
Today we spent travelling. For the most part and it proved to be a long day even though we spent a good deal of it sitting down.
It wouldn’t have been so bad really or so it seemed on paper. 1 - 2 hours on the fast ferry from Nuweiba to Aqaba followed by about a 2 hour drive to Wadi Musa. Easy right?
After going for a walk to find an ATM in order to acquire some local currency we headed to the visitor centre at the entrance to Petra to get our tickets. Since we have two days here we got the two day pass.
We walked through the gates up the gravel path. It would be nice to imagine doing this with us being the only ones here but there is not even the luxury of that. There are seriously a lot of people here.
We weren’t really in a hurry this morning so we took our time. On the agenda for today our second day to explore Petra was one of the hikes. After reading through the description of some of the hikes, of varying difficulty we decided on the walk that led to a vantage point overlooking the treasury.
Not really all that much to tell from today. It was a travel day filled with the hassles one tends to get on such days. It started out all right, the taxi I’d booked the night before arrived on time and took us promptly to the ferry terminal at Aqaba. That is where the problems started.
