In the morning depart from your dead sea hotel lobby then ride on the desert highway for 25 hours to the astonishing rock city petra this fascinating ancient nabatean capital once dominated the arabian trade routes at the visitors center buy the tickets to petra and explore the mystic site pass the siq a narrow gorge where you get the first close views of the colorful sandstone ending at the beautiful treasury walk along the street of facades to the royal tombs the theater and qasr al