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My Last Wish for 2012 [Explored]

            A picture of the Treasury in Petra as one enters the area through the siq. Before going to Jordan, I was intrigued with other pictures of this spectacle and wanted to see it for myself. Petra does not disappoint!!!

All the countries I have shown you at the beginning of 2012:  Burma, Syria and Egypt  are suffering because of tyrannical  leaders or the people uprising against such leaders and in turn ruining their tourist trade.

People dealing with tourism in these countries have lost their hope to better their lives as it is the major source of revenue for so many people. 

And now I show you Jordan, why? The folks there have lost a great deal of their  normal tourists because the rest of the world thinks that it is not a safe place to vacation which is not true. 

The country is also taking in refugees from neighboring countries while at the same time their own citizens can't find work and on top of a huge population of Palestinian refugees.

So my last wish is of course for peace to come to all of the troubled parts of the world and that the wonderful people I have met in these special countries start seeing travellers again.

Taken in: الأردن (show map)

Taken on: May 11, 2010

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siq

Petra

Middle East

World Heritage site

ancient city

ruins

rock formations

building

the Treasury

wonders of the world

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