PETRA,JORDAN

Petra is the treasure of ancient world, hidden behind an almost impenetrable barrier of rugged mountains.The most memorable structure and carved out of the red stone cliff during the first century BC.Petra sights are at their best in early morningand late afternoon, when the sun warms the multicolored stones.The Petra basin boasts over 800 individual monuments, including buildings, tombs, baths, funerary halls, temples, arched gateways, and colonnaded streets, that were mostly carved from the kaleidoscopic sandstone.