Saturday 25 October

A’s birthday. After saying  goodbye to everyone at the hotel, we set off in the huge car for Petra. Arrived at the guest house (these are all government run and super) for “Pepsi” before riding on horseback through the narrow Sig into the valley of Petra.

 Here we saw the Treasury, Monastery, Theatre Palace Tomb etc all carved out of the soft red rock in fantastic condition. We were shown round by a sergeant in the tourist Police.

Would have liked to stay longer but time was pushing so back to the rest house for chicken and salad in a cave hewn out of the rock in front of which the rest house stood. Shooting back to Amman in time to go out for a superb meal and then the nightclub till 1.30 in the morning. At the nightclub we met, in the company of Tuma and Ginnie, a man in the Jordanian F/O very rich but a hopeless alcoholic. Ah well.