While walking down the Street of Facades, I noticed a cave up in the rocks and the roof of it looked very colorful. Went up there to check what was lending it the colors. Turned out it is the natural color of the rocks. (red sandstone, sandstone and other rocks).

You will see another picture of this in a much bigger scale later.

This is one tomb facade after another made in the rock faces…

The name is a bit misguiding. While the exact purpose is not known, it is believed to be a mausoleum. The bedouins, much later, found this place and assumes it had much treasure hidden inside it. And that is how it got the name. Imposing structure.

The Siq sometimes became very narrow. Probably giving the Nabataens an advantage over any advancing enemies.

Walking thru the Siq (main road into the capital), I was again struck my the gold-topped mountain heads (like in Wadi Al-Mujib)

The ancient Nabataens had built this dam to channel the water thru a dark tunnel whenever the water levels rose (to prevent flooding of the capital.)

The capital itself was called Raqeem but when the Greeks came, they named it Petra (root word for rocks – as in petrified)