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Incredible PETRA tour by LOCAL BEDOUINS 🇯🇴

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Incredible PETRA tour by LOCAL BEDOUINS 🇯🇴

Part of Harry’s Jordan vlog series. Harry and his friend Mac drive five minutes from their hotel in Wadi Musa to Petra, arriving just before 7am to get ahead of the crowds. Entry is covered by their Jordan Pass, which Harry calls one of the main reasons to buy it. After running the gauntlet of persistent horse-ride and guide touts at the entrance, they walk in as the landscape opens up, hike with a local guide to a viewpoint above the Treasury for tea, explore the theatre and cave dwellings beyond, get invited by Bedouins to stay the night in their camp, and finish with a Jordanian buffet lunch before heading back around 2pm — roughly 16,000 steps in.

Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles, which are garbled in places; some spoken amounts are marked unverified.

Itinerary

Wadi Musa (hotel) → Petra entrance at ~6:50am → Treasury → viewpoint climb → theatre and rock-cut tombs → Bedouin camp → buffet lunch → back to the hotel.

Key moments

  • [00:00] Breakfast done, five-minute drive from the hotel; Petra opens at 6am and they arrive around 6:50.
  • [01:36] Entry with the Jordan Pass — otherwise a day ticket costs around 40–50 (from video – unverified).
  • [02:06] Horse handlers at the entrance push hard for a ride; the touts set the tone for the day.
  • [03:06] Ten minutes’ walk in, the landscapes turn incredible — though Harry admits it feels commercialised, “a little bit like Disneyland”.
  • [04:38] A steep, proper climb to a photo viewpoint above the Treasury — harder than expected with camera gear.
  • [05:38] Tea with a view at the top; they paid 15 JD for two for the guided climb, which Harry judges worth it for the peace away from the crowds.
  • [06:12] Beyond the Treasury: the theatre, rock carvings like small houses, and donkeys for hire; they explore without a tour guide.
  • [07:43] Bedouins offer coffee and tea and invite them to stay the night in a cave at their camp.
  • [09:19] Buffet lunch of Jordanian food — 17 with drinks (from video – unverified) — including umm ali, a bread-pudding-like dessert Harry rates.
  • [11:23] Leaving just as hordes of tour buses arrive; they skipped the Monastery, maybe for tomorrow.

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