Tombs, Petra, Jordan

Tombs, Petra, Jordan
Originally uploaded by JonathanTheMan.

Camels and donkeys are the main forms of tourist transportation in Petra (other than walking) as well as being the best way for local Bedouin to extract money from visitors. Tania spent a bit of time on donkeys after spraining her ankle climbing down from the tombs in the background of this photo. And a donkey vs camel bidding war resulted in us riding cheap camels out of Petra at the end of the day - a not very comfortable but amusing sequence of "excuse me"s & "sorry"s as the rather bad-tempered camels barged through the remaining tourists.