Pt1 - 12: PETRA The high road took us up through the starkly beautiful ash-Sharah Range to Wadi Musa, The Valley of Moses, the township adjacent to the Nabataean ruins. We found a cheap, passable hotel and spent what remained of the afternoon exploring Al Beidha (Little Petra), which lies about 12kms out of town along a narrow winding road that offers tantalising glimpses of Petra proper on the way. It’s worth taking a short paragraph to explain the idiosyncracies of Arab hotels. Government regulation requires the traveller to have their passport photocopied and surrender it at reception for the duration of their stay; I was always a bit nervous about this because some of the characters I handed my passport over to didn’t exactly inspire confidence in getting it back, and who knew what they got up to with it while it was in their possession. Hot water is only available for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon, if at all, so learn to love showering...
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