UNCOVERING PETRA | The Middle East Forgotten City of Jordan

So we've officially made it to Petra Park and something that I don't think anybody knows about, I mean I especially didn't know about, is Petra is not like another one of those monuments that you just drive up to, hop out of the car, take a few photos, and then you drive out. It's actually like this long, long walkway trail that just like thousands of people are walking down. Along the way we're gonna see so many cool things. It's pretty incredible the civilization that lived here. We just entered the sea. You may recognize this portion of Petra from Indiana Jones where he rides his horse down into this canyon and ends up at the treasury. This place is a natural fortification that the ancient civilization used to protect their people from invaders. One of the cool things about this is they have actually carved out a water system through this entire canyon narrows area to feed water into the civilization from the water and the river outside of this mountain range. Okay so let's just stop and enjoy this beauty. One of the cool things about this walkway, this path, it was naturally broken by a fault. Usually places like this are carved out by water but this was actually two mountains like separating due to the movement of the land. And you can actually see all the like layers up through the rock formations and it They have carved out a full camel and trader procession with at least two camels and two men and this is the most well preserved with this guy and he was probably stood over six feet tall and you can see even in his hand he was holding a staff. Just it's so worn away because it's like 1500 years old. Petra. Welcome to Petra, Alaska. So we've now made it to the treasury of Petra and it's so so beautiful. I think what's absolutely crazy to me is I look at like the design I every single time I pictured it I think I just pictured like the columns but there's like intricate design on this treasury that's actually like really really cool to see. No seriously like it's like an entire facade with even like a room that you can go into. It's locked off right now but there's an actual room into the mountain which is so crazy. The other crazy thing about this place is it was more or less abandoned after earthquakes that happened in the first century. So I just realized that I haven't explained that Petra was a hustling bustling city and it was a major stop on trade routes through this area thousands of years ago. They had amphitheaters, they had big fountains, they had churches to worship in, they had I mean just they had tombs, they had places for people to stay, libraries. There was just there's so many they have places of worship and sacrifice on top of these mountains and it just is so incredible at the complexities of the city. Okay so we've just arrived at the Erintum and it's this really really cool place that I just found out some cool history about it. So when the Nabataeans were here they called it a courthouse where judges would meet and obviously do prosecution and down underneath this there's the prison cells but then when the Romans arrived they called it a church and the coolest thing about this is if you come on the inside of it let me show you real quick if you come on the inside of the courthouse or the church whatever you want to call it the ceilings are absolutely baffling like mind-boggling they're like the sandstone color and the the tops almost look like they've been like fire roasted with black it's just like the crazy swirls like somebody came in here and took like watercolors and made it the way it is absolutely fascinating super cool on to the next place. Right next to the main street in the residential area there is this giant temple complex it's the biggest building here in Petra and it had an upwards of 60 columns when they were this was fully built another cool thing about this place is if you look at the tiles the floor tiles all the tiles here in the temple complex are hexagonal and they would have covered this whole entire area and I think that is so cool because this is such a unique thing I've never seen I've only seen it here in Petra. We're on the last big section to our last destination here in Petra we are headed toward the monastery and we have about 500 to 900 steps I've never gotten our exact count online but there are a lot of steps between us and our final destination the monastery so up we go okay a little status update lots of stairs no idea if we're even halfway there it's pretty cool though because on the way up there's like tons of the villagers on the side doing their like cooking but not for very long because I want to go down and it just makes for like maybe a more enjoyable hike you get to look at things on the way up as well as like the beautiful rock formations victory at last it's like double the size of the treasury I don't think people realize that we are five and a half kilometers in and when we have enjoyed our time here we'll head back what I will say about this one though it makes it interesting is it seems like it's less detailed it's similar it feels more simple and just like bigger but big it's huge this place is called the monastery because byzantine monks rediscovered it and lived here for a while the byzantines were a group of people that kind of came from europe roman area and ruled this area for quite some time and with that though if you look at the weather behind us it is looking absolutely crazy like it turned from like blue skies and like light clouds just a moment ago while we were hiking this thing to absolutely like nutty clouds rolling in like this is we're about to get dumped on so we're gonna put this away if you like this video hit the like button if you if you want to join us for our other crazy adventures here in jordan and israel and all throughout europe that we're going to be doing over the next several months hit subscribe below we want you along on our journey and with that we'll see you guys in the next one peace you know it's going to be bad when uh when all the local people who actually live up here are putting all of their home like sofa seat cushions and everything away this is going to be a big one and we have 850 steps and 5.5 kilometers to go yep all right wish us luck we'll see you in the next one all right you guys it's officially happened the rain has started to come down and we still have like five kilometers left we still have probably get what one and a half hours left of walking so you can imagine i think we can both imagine how wet we're going get jack sparrow jack sparrow this guy riding down on the donkey looks just like like an i'm gonna get him to catch an almond want an almond yeah huh in the mouth that's here i got you here you go all right not much joy in that have a good day and that is how i befriended jack sparrow yummy how cute was that kid no thank you you like my hair yeah it's nice she just wiped her nose with her