and seventy five miles north of Aqaba, Petra,
which biblical names are Mount Seir and Sela,
is the city of Esau and the stronghold of the Edomites.
fantastic rock formation on earth - El Ciq,
six thousand feet long, about thirty to twelve feet wide and
the sides are made of perpendicular cliffs,
from three hundred to five hundred feet high.
The entire Petra complex, including the El Ciq
is roughly twenty square miles in size.
Rediscovered by John Burckhardt, a Swiss adventurer,
disguised as a devout moslem, in 1812.
(in Greek it means rock, in Hebrew Sela and Seir
mean hairy, home of the hairy Esau.) will be the city
of deliverance, the defensible hiding place for the
deliverance of the people of Israel.
After a short horseback ride through the El Ciq,
in the shadows of the cliffs on both side,
the Treasury building majestically appears
right before your eyes.
