At this point in the siq, visitors are walking on the ancient cobblestone road, possibly over 2000 years old. The careful observer will be able to see the ruts that thousands of chariot and wagon wheels have worn into the stones.

 The picture on the left is taken at one of the narrowest part of the siq. It is a great place to stop and look around. On the left hand side of the siq is the water channel. It used to be covered, but long ago ancient floods washed away the cover stones. On the right side of the siq an ancient clay pipeline can be seen. These clay pipes also brought water down to the center of Petra. It is possible to see two well preserved sections of pipe in the museum in the center of Petra.

On one occasion when taking a British building contractor through Petra, he noted that the ends of the clay pipes were tapered, something we moderns only figured out how to do a couple of hundred years ago.