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If you have read this page carefully, you will have realised that even a "short" visit to Petra needs two full days, especially if you are there when it is hot. To cover no more than the places described here would just about kill anybody who wasn't super young and fit! Take two days (three would be better!) and do the High Place and the Deir on separate visits. There is more than enough to fill your time!

I have drawn very largely on the Rough Guide to write this all this. As I have said elsewhere, it is much more than a simple guide book, with successive editions it is becoming more of an encyclopedia on Jordan. I have relied on it in various places to fill in gaps in my memory and my knowledge and everywhere to supply details of measurements and distances that I have never bothered to find out (I stick to "far" and "further" and very occasionally "close by").