Expectations build up. The excitement of what lies in front of you… Sometimes this is a journey in itself.

Indiana Jones raced through here looking for the Holy Grail. I choose to take my time. Even though it is what lies ahead of me that has made the whole site so famous. It is the passage I am going through now that will make the strongest impression on me. Over a mile long gorge – The Siq.

Don’t get me wrong. The entire ancient city of Petra is one amazing sight. The main attraction Al-Khazneh is incredibly beautiful and impressive where “The Treasury” reveals itself as a carved piece of jewelry in the peach red rock walls.

But it is the little journey there I enjoy the most, where Joe and I are almost alone. The few people we see here and there only enhances the dimensions, the high walls that squeeze together upon us – and makes us so very small.

In a peach and ocher-colored world, the walls play with light and show us the mysterious remains of water channels the Nabateans created. In one place we see carved camel feet and we point and look and feel for a moment like an Indiana Jones on his way to the treasury.

On our way to …

And that feels good as well.