Shobak Castle and Little Petra

While the borders are still closed and internal tourism re-opened, we decided to take a weekend trip to Petra and Wadi Rum. We just took the boys and Eliza stayed home with Tes. It is very hot this time of year in the desert, and Tes was happy to watch her while we were away. Our plan was to visit Shobak Castle, one of the crusader castles, on the first day, however when we got there it was closed because they were repairing the road to the top. This is as close as we could get from the visitor center.

I love how the Jordanian flag flies proudly every where you go!

Cute kitties at the visitor center. According to Benjamin, who ran back to the car in tears, these cats were not so cute anymore because they stole his nutella sandwich, haha!

Next stop was Little Petra, which is about 15 minutes north of Petra in the town of Wadi Musa. It is a Nabataean site, just like Petra, with buildings carved into the walls of the sandstone canyons. It is much smaller than Petra, and on this day we had the entire place to explore to ourselves!

We checked into the hotel in the afternoon and spent the rest of the day in the pool!

These boys are little fish!

View from our room.

It was a great first day, ending with a beautiful sunset!