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JordanA short call at Aqaba, Jordan's one seaport, and a reminder of how glad we were to have given Petra a proper visit weeks before, while shipmates got only two rushed hours. Then four days at sea, down the Red Sea and out into the pirate waters of the Gulf of Aden: the Martini Bar that became 'our bar,' the crew's Covid stories, two fine couples, and a boat in the night that gave everyone a fright.
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JordanPast the Treasury, the canyon opens and the real scale of Petra appears: the Street of Facades, the great rock-cut theater, the Royal Tombs glowing on the eastern cliffs, and the temple of Qasr al-Bint at the far end. Most of the city is still buried, and getting back out meant a five-mile day, a long uphill climb, and a pair of donkeys.
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JordanThe morning we had been waiting for. Petra, the lost city of the Nabateans, rediscovered for the West in 1812, with our guide Mariam, the first Bedouin woman to guide there. We walked down the long canyon of the Siq, past the dams and carvings, to the moment everyone comes for: the Treasury revealed at the end of the slot, the rose-red facade that Indiana Jones made famous.
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