Hands down Petra was THE best ancient city I have EVER seen. It pretty much shat on Macchu Picchu, Ephesus, Pompeii, every Egyptian monument and the underground cities of Cappadocia. It's an incredibly well preserved 2,000 year old mega city in which over 20,000 people once lived. They lived in a city carved out of the same candy striped multicoloured rock we hiked through at Dana NAture Reserve. We loved it, and can't possibly capture it on film or with words. Impossible! But the people we met along the way today, and those that FOLLOWED us along our way, had us in stitches, blushing and yelling. I think being practically the only two single girls under 55 in the whole of Petra didn't help us. Brooke argues that it is actually her Guatemalan heat and the
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