- PETRA
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- Arriving at Petra
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- Walk In
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- The Siq
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- The Small Siq
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- Treasury
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- Street of Facades
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- Water Works
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- The Theater
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- The Royal Tombs
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- High Place
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- Colonnade Street
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- Great Temple
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- Temple of Al Uzza
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- Temple of Dushares
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- Museum
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- Dier
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- Habis
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- Biera
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- City of Board Games
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- Snake Monumnet
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- Sabara Suburb
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- City Walls/Map
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- Al Beidha
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- Churches
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- Kubtha High Place
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- Wadi Nmeir
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- Small Delights
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- The Bedul
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- Petra Today
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- Petra Park
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PETRA: Al Sabara Suburb
We will visit Sabara later in 2003, probably in March or April.
We hope to have a complete report posted here later . However,
we have hiked from the center of Petra down to the snake monument
and so this part of the journey to Sabara is illustrated below.
There are two ways to get to Al Sabara. The first, described
below, is to start at Darshares Temple and hike along the bottom
of Um al Biyara (as if you were going to Aron's Tomb) until you
get to the snake monument. From there it is another hour hike
to Wadi Al Sabara. At one time this route was sign posted. The
second route starts on the Hotel road above Wadi Mousa. Start
south of the Grand View Hotel and head down the mountain and
west towards the Sabara mountains. You pass down fields, a rough
road and just before the flat-topped Tabqa mountains turn south
down the gorge called Ras Sabara, along a clear track until the
wadi widens. From there it is easier to hike into Petra than
to climb back up the mountain.
Below: The entrance to Wadi Sabara. It's a long
climb down, but worth it if you are a Petra or Nabataean enthusiast.
| In Wadi Sabara, the Nabataeans had an agricultural
and industrial settlement. Hewn into the cliff on the left is
a theater. Above the theater was a water reservoir. Behind the
theater stage is another water basin. Along the sides of the
wadi are many cave homes. Past the theater is a cult niche in
the cliff, just beyond the perennial sprint, Ain Sabara. On the
north west side of the wadi, above the sprint are the ruins of
a monumental building with large columns which may have been
a temple. There is a heap of copper ore slag on the top of the
wadi embankment. Cupriferous sandstone deposits, iron ore and
copper are found along the wadi, demonstrating how this was an
important mental-working center at Petra. |
The Nabataea.net trip to
al Sabara ended with the whole group getting lost in the mountains.
We were close to Al Sabara, but never made it. If you have pictures
of this site, please email them
to us. |
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