TRAVEL | Petra

One of the new seven wonders of the world, Petra is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Sitting on the slope of Mount Hor, Jordan, Petra was believed to be the capital of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people who settled here more than 2000 years ago, and the centre of their camel caravan trade. It is a vast, unique city, carved into the sheer rock face, turning it into an important junction for the silk, spice and other trade routes that linked China, India and southern Arabia with Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome.

Petra was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" by John William Burgon







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