The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

The Siq is the canyon that leads to Petra.

This is the entrance to the narrow canyon.

This tunnel was originally built over 2000 years ago to control flooding. It is 88m long.

The carved blocky things are called Djinn blocks, because the Bedouin people believed djinn lived in them.

They were actually carved centuries before that and were probably some kind of memorial to the dead.

This was the water supply to the city, carved into the canyon walls. But it wasn’t for drinking water.

It is covered in some places to keep debris out.

This is the drinking water channel. It was concealed and out of reach so that people could not poison it.

This is pretty much all that remains of a carving in the canyon of a merchant and camels. Lots of the canyon was decorated originally, but it didn’t keep very well.

The canyon was very pretty.