Good morning Jordan! What an educational trip this has been thus far! When Ben planned out day we saw so many interesting sites all in one day! Since it is my day to plan I want to go back to the treasury and spend a great deal of time there. I loved the architecture and history of the place to much I want to see it again an spend more time at this miraculous location.
After getting showered and ready for our day, we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the open breakfast of our hotel and were on our way. Instead of taking a cab, which would have been faster we decided to take camels to the Treasury. We rented a couple of camels from locals for 18 Jordanian Dinar’s for the day for both camels. It took us a little while to get there, but it was definitely a fun ride! We stopped by a little local grocery store and picked up some bread and meat to make sandwiches for lunch, and put a few water bottles in our bags as well. While at the store we spent 8 dinar.
A little background on the Treasury is it is carved out of solid rock and is over forty meters high! That’s about the size of a large house carved totally out of rock. I can only imagine how long that took. While it is named “the Treasury” the original use of the structure is a mystery, however researchers are pretty sure that it was not actually used as a treasury. It is believed to have been some sort of burial grounds for royals such as a temple or tomb. It is believed pirated hid treasures in the middle of the second level of the Treasury, which is how it got its name. Why it has never been opened I am not totally sure.
When we went into the Treasury and were yet again overwhelmed by the beauty of it. While it is not very big it is very beautiful and detailed. We walked around and looked at the specific details and imagined how hard people had worked to make this great monument. Since no one is exactly sure of the origin we made up our own theories as to what we thought the origin of the building was. Regardless of the origin, I highly doubt people anticipated tourists walking around in it in 2010.
* Me sitting inside the Treasury
Once we were done inside we went and sat on the front steps and made our sandwiches. I wasn’t very hungry so I fed part of my sandwich to each camel.
* Our Camels chilling outside the Treasury
Once the boys and the camels were fuelled up and ready to go we headed back down towards town. But since we were in no hurry we decided to take our time and ride around on the camels. I was so happy to do this since I had seen the girls in the Sex and The City 2 movie do it! I could have ridden on those camels all day! But the boys started complaining about how hot and tired they were so we headed back.
We stopped back by that same store and bought an array of food for dinner for a total of 14 dinars. After that we returned the camels to the nice men, and gave them some flowers we had bought at the store as a thank you. Once we got back into our hotel room we barely had time to eat before we all passed out from our exhausting day in the sun.
Total Spent: 40 Dinar
Total Spent: 40 Dinar
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