PETRA Was AMAZING! 🥹 (We Had To Go TWICE)

There's one place in Jordan that everyone dreams of seeing. One of the New 7 Wonders, Petra. Oh my gosh, that is incredible. It is the place to experience in Jordan and it has been on our bucket list for the longest time. But here's the dilemma, did you know that there's two different ways to see Petra? One by day and the other by candlelight at night. A city carved in sand, rock and stone. And there's only one way to know which is best, so come along with us while we find out. Petra by day or Petra by night. What is going on right now? Okay, welcome. Look, this is our home. I just want to show you real quick. This is where we're staying. Over the back here. Check out those views. Okay. Wait, is that the pool? Oh, okay, hold on a minute. Check out those views. We had a sunset on the way in. This is the amazing thing. Our CEO was just like, hey, there's the option. Does anybody want to go at nighttime? And this was not supposed to be part of the trip. And then all of a sudden everybody was just like, yeah, let's do nighttime too. So we're a little bit rushed because we've only got a quick turnaround. I would normally say welcome to my room, but today I'm going to say welcome to my palace. I reckon. Look at it. Yeah, so this was never even on the plan, right? Petra by night. But how cool we get to see both. I know, I'm really excited. Well, I'm not prepared because I feel in the dark about what it's actually going to look like. But tomorrow will be even better, I reckon, after a little taster. Well, that's debatable. That's kind of the whole point of what we're trying to figure out. Okay. All the travelers are going to Petra by night. Who is going to Petra by night? When we arrive to the visitor center before we will start, I need from each one, there to be announced. Seeing Petra by day is all included in our tour, but to visit at night is 30 dinar per person, which we've since learned is an important thing to note. More on that at the end though. If you didn't catch our first impressions video from last week, for this Jordan series, we're on a G Adventures tour, exploring the country to capture all of the best sights and highlights. Now that we're here, you just cannot put into words. How does it feel? This wasn't on the cards. And already our inbox is full of questions around safety and how welcoming it feels as a tourist here. We love you guys. Very safe country. Jordan love you all. Look how beautiful you are. Yalla, yalla. And that pretty much sums it up. Jordanian hospitality is beautiful and being on a tour means that we barely even have to think about things like, what should we eat before we go into Petra tonight? All the tables inside. Okay. You're welcome guys. Yalla, yalla. Wow, okay. Buffet style. What are we working with babe? We've come to the dessert area. Yeah, of course you have. What's up? Hey guys, what's going on? I'm on a Dean Stacey show, so what's happening? We've got the hummus going down. I'm going to try this mansaf, which is one of the local popular dishes, fermented yogurt, which apparently can be a little bit sour. Yours looks a little bit different. A bit safer maybe. All right. That's not like you. Just call me out. Wow. This is incredible. We're not even in yet. No, but look at this. This is just the visitor center. He's already impressed. Just the design. The architecture. Impressive. This one came up. I think it's going to be really interesting to see how many more people are here tomorrow morning versus now. Like, well, I'm assuming that there'll be more, but we are coming quite early. So TBC, watch the space. I just walked through that bush, tripped on that. Good stuff. Don't lose it. 30 DINAR. Thanks so much. I would never. Petra. By night. Well, on the way in, we've got some, we've got some lanterns. The crazy thing is, actually it's coming up better on camera, although I'm sure it's noisy, is we don't really know what we're looking at. And that's kind of nice having the surprise that this will all make sense tomorrow because right now I can't really make much of that out. Another consideration with the nighttime thing is colder. It's only 19 degrees. It's going to be about 17 by the time we leave. It feels very strange to be walking around with the jumper, but, oh wow. Okay. Now that is starting to make more sense. Get those gimbal legs going. Stabilize. Sorry. I just, when I was talking then, it was so jittery. I genuinely think when we walk through this bit tomorrow, it's going to rock our world. Don't you think? Rock? Get it? Yeah, I think so too. It is like another world in here. We're just thinking tonight, from what we can tell, it's going to be more about, less about the history and more about the feels, more about the show. This is the big reveal. Wow. I nearly fell over. I was looking up so hard. I nearly fell over. Can you believe this? Okay. Thank you, sir. Guys, this is special. So look. Big light rig set up. Not sure if that'll be there in the daytime. Obviously casting right back onto the main event there. Okay. Thank you. This is really special. I think this is going to be incredible. Sit on the magic carpet. We're about to fly out. Yeah. Enjoy. Oh, my light's on. That's embarrassing. Sorry, guys. Excuse me. I'm here. By night is definitely something that you have to feel and experience rather than just see. It was surreal and mysterious in a way that left us with chills. God. You'd think it's still nighttime. It's 5.30 in the morning. So why is it so early? You got to beat the crowds. I actually don't know how today is going to beat last night. I just, I guess it's because we don't know what it looks like. But the thing I noticed was, it was super grand and everything, but you couldn't see all the details. You could tell, like, walking through the sink, that the cliffs were really high and you're walking through kind of a crack in the rock, but you couldn't see it. So it's like, I'm looking forward to getting that more detail today. Yeah. So an interesting thing from last night, I was like, it won't be less about history, is that the light show itself talks through history in a way. So we've kind of learned some of that, but obviously we've got to see, we've got a guide and two guides actually, and we've done a bunch of research as well to share with you guys because there's some interesting stuff. It's amazing. We're back. Let's go. Everyone's on a bit more of a mission this morning. I already see some detail coming up on the cliffs, although that's not really the most impressive part. I think it's only going to get better. Thank you. Good morning, how are you? Good, how are you? Good, thank you. How was your morning? Thank you. All right, we're in. Woohoo, let's do this. I think the walk is about two kilometers in total. Yeah, I think we missed sharing that. I feel like we can initially share some more deets with you about what the whole experience is like. So, two kilometer walk. You can take a buggy if you like, but I feel like you miss out on a lot if you're just kind of driving through. Maybe last night, if you were going to do a buggy because of the walk, maybe it would have been a good option to get there because you can't see any detail on the rock. Yeah, that is a good point actually, but the last kilometer, before you get to the treasury, which is obviously the iconic spot that everyone wants to see, you walk through an amazing gorge. I won't say too much now, but... So that's the first bit, the first kilometer or so. It's once you turn around here, now it feels like you're really starting to get into the heart of it. Stace, look at that now. I know, it's crazy, isn't it? Love that. I'm not saying crazy, what's another word? Inspiring, amazing, wonderful, overwhelming. Spectacular. Magnificent. Walking through the Seek, we were full of anticipation and you could feel the excitement and the difference in the air from last night and nothing could have prepared us for that feeling of emerging out of the canyon and seeing the treasury for the first time in the day. I literally feel like an ant. It is so big. Just to see, you literally can't stand carved out, to see the edges just stop there. Yeah, they just took what was the cliff face and then it's almost, it's inside of it too, hey. That is incredible. It's funny because obviously everyone wants to come to the treasury, it's the iconic spot, it's the shot that everybody sees, but I think the thing that lots of people don't know is that this is an entire ancient city and so much of it hasn't even been discovered. So we're all here in this teeny tiny park, but literally this was a whole city. So this was on such an important trade route back in the days that this would have been a hustling, bustling market. So I took it upon myself to ask AI to generate what it would have looked like and sounded like back then. This is what it came up with. Also the option to pay 10 dinar to climb up and get a view back down, the unobstructed view. Oh, you're almost more eye level I think. Oh, I love this perspective. You do? Yeah, look. We're not even up there yet. No, but I like it. It's so different. You kind of feel like it's just you and the treasury. And those five or six people up there. While the treasury itself is over 39 meters tall, you might be wondering just how big is Petra? Well, the site covers 264 square kilometers. That is about 30,000 rugby fields. But it's estimated there's still 80% of the site uncovered, along with a lot of secrets left behind by the Nabataeans when they first carved the ancient city over 2,000 years ago. We actually wanted to come and sit down and just looking back up on the treasury now and just take a minute because I was starting to feel a bit, what's the word? I don't even know what the word is. I guess it's just a little bit overwhelmed because there's so much to take in. Everyone's running around taking photos, which is amazing because you're going to make so many cool memories. But then you do just need that minute for yourself. Yeah. I think in my soul, I just needed the chance to just sit down and just spend the last five or 10 minutes just sitting here, barely spoken, just in awe of this whole thing. And the detail. I think that's what's jumping out at me the most is that last night was amazing, obviously, because it was kind of rendered for us. Whereas now you actually see how they rendered it, how they created their own scaffolding to work their way down, carving it in. Jeez, we can't even paint a fence. Look what they did. Which we feel is pretty unfair. It said, why not stop? That's the name of it. So we were like, why not? What are we going to do? I reckon we should get a nice hot tea because it's quite cold. If they sell it. I don't know. Yeah, tea is two dinar. I don't know what tea I expected, but it's got minted stuff in it, I think. I think that's like a traditional Jordanian tea. Is it? Yeah, mint tea. Yeah, OK. I haven't put any... Oh, the mint is strong. Smells nice. There's enough sugar as well. I'm not sure if that's normal. It's more like a herbally kind of taste. I wonder if the sugar balances it out and changes the complexion of it. I was just sitting here looking. There's people climbing up. It's often that you get stuck at that first thing, the big iconic thing. But now looking out and around here. And there's nobody. Yeah, you can just wander around and explore. And it's way more quiet and a lot calmer out here. I'm kind of like digging the vibe down here a lot more, I think. Don't fall down the hole. There's just... There's spots everywhere. Wow, that's a bit dodgy, isn't it? You have to imagine that we're only given access to like 1% of all of this as well. True. There's so much more. Everywhere you look, there's something going on. There are lavish houses built within this. See, look at this. What are you doing here? We're going for the theatre view. This is a security guard. What's the fee, mate? Do I have to pay to get in? No. We're going in through here. See, if you look off in the distance here, you can see so many openings. There are areas in here that most people will never see. It's just endless. Right out into the whole valley. If you've stumbled in here for research, this would have been a much better spot to stop and have tea, I think. Because you'd be looking straight down. Yeah, that's much better than what we did. So while we've got our own thoughts to share about night versus day, so do our friends. The question is, picture at night or picture by day? Or picture by day. Day. Day for sure. I wanted to say night. Controversy. I thought we were all going to say night at the same time. No. Picture by night. Night is special, but day you can see more. Exactly that. Is it that easy? 3 to 1? Or have you changed your mind? No, still picture by night. Okay, thanks team. But here's the thing that Stace hinted at earlier. The question has kind of changed from which is better. And the reason is, we have since found out that you can only visit at night time if you already have a day pass. So the question now is, yeah, is it worth visiting at night time? 100% yes. By day, Petra hits you with the scale and the colours and the details. But there was a feeling about experiencing it at night time that will stay with us for life. And we highly recommend you do both if you have the time. And we recommend you subscribe if you haven't already. Because for now, we're checking out of our cushy hotel and making our way to sleep in the desert. And experience some more Jordanian hospitality. So, catch up with you in the next video.