Day 5 - Petra
The entrance to Petra is through a crevice carved into sandstone. (Right) Ellen, Heather, and Lisa pause just before entering the city.
Petra was created by the Nabatheans over two thousand years ago. It is a city of Greco-Roman buildings, all carved from the sandstone cliffs.
(Below) Ellen stands beside a through carved along the side of the walls of the cliff. This through carried water from a reservoir at the entrance of the path to city. This was the apparent viaduct, on the opposite wall were masonry tile pipes hidden inside the rock. Were an enemy to cut off the obvious source of water, the secret source remained. 
Day 1 Jerusalem
Day 2 Jerusalem
Day 3 Jerusalem
Day 4 Dead Sea
Day 5 Petra
Day 6 Gaza
(Right) I stand in front of what is commonly known as the Treasury building. As you pass between the narrowing crevice in the cliffs, you stand first in front of this dramatic edifice. The Bedouins called this building the Treasury building since they believed that coins were stored in vessels carved on the front. However, historians tell us that This building, as well as all the others in Petra, were built as tombs.
The Treasury building and its locale is so impressive in its secretly hidden grandeur that Steven Spielberg chose it for the climatic scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Our tour guide Mohammed told us that he worked in the movie. "Six months for twenty minutes of film," he remarked.
