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A School field trip.

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Another significant carving.

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Layers of earth's history - exposed.

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View from the South.

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Humans are miniscule in comparison.

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Another human souvenir.

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Jabal Al-Khubtha.

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Note the color change in the rocks. Now more pink.

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The gorgeous afternoon sun bathes the travellers (hardened and otherwise).

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Seeing is believing how enormous these rock formations really are.

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They had their own Hollywood.

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On the way back taking one last look at Al Khazneh.

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An amphitheater carved out of rock. Built to seat around 3000 people.

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More tombs up above.

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That looks like a building to me. In ruins now but in a distant past it must have stood tall and complete for the people of Petra, thought to number up to 50,000.

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