240 Kilometres south of Amman using Desert highway and could be reached through Kin’s Highway (Visiting Madaba, Nebo, Kerak, and Shobak en route).
• Was built more than 2000 years ago by the Arabic Nomads NABATEANS, all carved in mountains.
• Considered by the UNISCO as one of the international archaeological heritage.
• Petra was built as a fortress city that had a domain on the trade routes crossing the area including the famous SILK ROAD.
• The archaeological city of Petra is reachable only by one narrow entrance through high natural passage crack in rocky mountain, this passage is called “ AL SIQ” in Arabic.
• An attached village called Wadi Moussa (Moses Valley), contains hotels and is the place to start the journey from.
• 10 kilometres away from Petra, visitors can find the excavations of Stone Age villages: BEIDA & BASTA, which are 8000 years old.