Petra.32 – Treasury Video Bonus!
One last view of the treasury, in 360-degree video reality for those of you with sufficient bandwidth to load it, so you can see me in situ at the beginning of my morning contemplating the beauty of the universe. If you’ve had enough of Petra, then … sorry, there’s still more to come, another eight hours or so of hiking and, if you go back to the map I posted in Petra.3, you will note that once I climbed back down to ground level at the base of the Royal Tombs, well…there’s a lot more of Petra left to be seen, and see nearly all of it I in fact did.
Petra.31 – Treasury Special Edition
We come to the highlight of my morning on high: sitting in stillness for a few hours as the sun rose, the day warmed, and remarkably few tourists made it up to these heights to enjoy watching the line of sun versus shadow steadily creep lower and lower on the Treasury. A reminder: it’s not a treasury, it’s a tomb. Most of these buildings were tombs, but later generations decided money must be hidden there so they called it a treasury. Above is a photo taken out of sequence, and I chose it because it gives you a sense how the Treasury sits within the cliffs and hills of the landscape, not because it’s the best view of the building itself. 🙂
There’s a lot more of Petra to come – also more from Jerash and Amman. I hope the rest of the photos below this will appear: I’ve had trouble with more complicated formats so it’s possible they will disappear, as they did when I first put this post up yesterday….It’s a lot more of this building then you ever thought you’d want to see, but it was a lovely morning.
(so much world, so little time....) 