St Lukes Hospice Wadi Rum to Petra Trek Charity: St Luke’s Hospice Challenge:  Jordan, Wadi Rum to Petra Trek Charity Challenge Dates: 21/10/2010 -28/10/2010 Deposit*: £ 0 Minimum Sponsorship*: £  0 Grade:  Moderate   Join St Luke's Hospice for this trek through the beautiful deserts of Jordan to finish at the magnificent Petra. The Wadi Rum defines the natural beauty and romance of the Arabian Desert. Here, where Lawrence of Arabia once rode, you will fine a moonscape of ancient valleys and towering sandstone mountains rising out of the white and pink coloured sands. Today, the Wadi Rum challenges adventurers to scale its sheer granite cliffs, to hike its mountain desert trails and to explore its endless sands on camel back. The valley has been inhabited for generations by Bedouin tribes who live in scattered nomadic settlements throughout the area, and you may be invited by these friendly and hospitable desert people to drink mint tea or cardamom coffee in their black tents or to join them round the fire beneath the desert's night sky - a truly unforgettable experience. Your ultimate destination is the astonishing rose red city of Petra. Once the stronghold of the gifted Nabateans, an early Arab people, Petra was renowned for its massive architecture and the ingenuity of its pools, dams, and water channels. Today, you can thread your way through a narrow gorge until you come upon colossal ruins cut into the rock - magnificent, silent and unchanged. As you exit from the shadows of the gorge, el Khazneh (the Treasury) towers above you in the sudden brightness. Carved out of solid rock and nearly 140 feet high and 90 feet wide, this fabulous antiquity is Petra’s most impressive monument. Beyond el Khazneh, you are surrounded on both sides by soaring temples, elaborate royal tombs, a Roman amphitheatre of (seating 3,000), burial chambers, banquet halls, water channels and reservoirs, monumental staircases, arched gates and paved streets.   Contact Ed ed@stlukeshospice.co.uk http://www.stlukes-hospice.org 01268 272292   Downloads		In Pictures     Participant Feedback... Accenture Kilimanjaro July 2006 - Sarah Woolley Beating Bowel Cancer - Jo Greensted Previous Kilimanjaro Trekkers Past Peru Trekkers Scope Trekkers return from Morocco - Climbing Mt Toubkal » More ...

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