This is what I waas referring to before. This is the picture of the ceiling. Looks like somebody put a colorful rug on the ceiling. Which, by the way, is not an uncommon thing – to put colorful rugs on ceilings here – to keep the heat away. However, these are nothing but pure rocks!!

To get an idea of scale, check out the size of the people below on the street

While walking down the Street of Facades, a familiar smell from the yesteryears hit our noses. The smell of “dhuno” (frankincense)!! It is very commonly used during Durga Pujo in India (which incidentally just concluded). I think I smelt this for the first time after three and half decades.

The Theater could hold eight thousand people. The Nabataeans probably had a reasonably rich social life.

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.