Petra

The route to Petra was also out of this world too. We drove up the mountains and looked down, it was all desert and rocks. I got scared because usually we will see the sea or ocean on the mountain but all we see is sand and more sand and more rocks, it's never ending. It's rather scary.

The traffic is crazy in Petra. There are no traffic lights, roads are narrow and winding and sloped. Luckily they could see that we were tourists and gave way to us. We checked in the hotel around 3pm and it was rest, photo deleting and IG posting day. We were so glad for this rest day before the high intensity workout the next day. We went to check the Petra entrance hours, and headed for dinner 1km away, because we checked trip advisor and that was the nearest higher ranked restaurant.

Indeed, it was really good, I had lamb and rice and Coca Cola. Woos. The next morning 6am we were already in the queue to get inside Petra. I can't believe we woke up so early just to get picture without all the tourist groups. 15mins in, we saw the Treasury, which was the highlight and must-take pic of this trip.

We climbed up for a better view and better pictures. I was feeling adventurous so I hung by the cliff and wasn't scared at all.

7.30am, we started walking in deeper to the Monastery. It smelt badly of donkey/horse/camel poop all the way it was so disgusting. And I hate those people who got there using animals it was so cruel. I could literally see the donkey's hind legs shaking all the way supporting the adult's weight. We reached the Monastery after 1 hour intense hiking upwards and ate our breakfast there. We explored upwards more, then waited for the right timing for the sun because 8.30am sun was casting a shadow on the Monastery.

Anyway afterwards we headed down, 1hour hike back and back to the hotel at 2pm. We were so relieved because it was scorching hot and so many tourist groups, and we were cooling down and showering in our room. Then 5pm, we went back again to take some last minute pictures again because the crowd were gone. This time I sat on the ledge and I was literally shaking because it was so high up and for the first time I felt vertigo. We had good pictures nonetheless.

Anyway dinner time. We "hiked" 1km again to the restaurant, and the owner actually recognised us and gave us 2nd dinner discount hahaha. We sat at the same table and same seats. This time I had chicken and rice hmmmmmm.

Breakfast next morning was really good as well, then it's dead sea time.