We rode donkeys or camels down an incline and through the narrow opening - the only way to enter Petra.Petra means rock. It is 4050 ft. high and surrounded by sandstone mountains ranging from 180 ft. to 300 ft. high. There is only one entrance 150-160 ft. wide (very narrow). An opening made naturally by the Red Sea (Petra was under the Red Sea 500,000 years ago). An opening squeezed between sheer, soaring rock walls. Found again in 1812, excavations were started in 1902, and opened for visitors in 1925.
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