the questions, and the figures that answer them
Petra travel guides
Thirteen guides, written to answer one question each and to print the figure that answers it. Every number here is checked against a source we name, and where we could not check one this month, the guide says so instead of guessing.
- 13guides
- 50 / 90JOD ticket, with / without a night in Jordan
- 235kmAmman → Petra, 3–3.5 h each way
014 guides
What It Costs, And Whether It Is Worth It
Start here if you have not decided yet. The entrance ticket is the largest single line in a Petra day and the one most comparison pages leave out, so it gets its own guide; the cost guide adds everything else up; and one guide argues the case against going at all before it argues the case for.
022 guides
Getting There From Amman
Two hundred and thirty-five kilometres of Desert Highway, and four ways to cover it. These two guides carry the fares, the hours and the arithmetic, including the one where you do it yourself and the one where a night in the desert cuts your ticket almost in half.
033 guides
The Day Itself
What actually happens between the gate and the coach back. How far you walk, what fits in four hours and what does not, what the candlelit night is and is not, and what to have on your feet before you find out the Monastery is eight hundred steps up.
044 guides
The Rest Of Jordan, Briefly
Most people who come to Petra see something else on the same trip, and the multi-day tours in the catalogue are built out of exactly these four places. Each guide says what is there, what it costs at the gate, and which tour reaches it.
Read the guide, then pick the tour it points at. The catalogue prints the minuses beside the pluses, and says what every price does about the ticket.
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