Little Petra tour by red rock tours

July 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Like bigger Petra to enter it you have to walk through a Siq which is a small crack or cutting through the Rocks which is much narrower and not quite as long as the one found at Petra. At a guess it is probably about forty feet long and only 3 feet wide. It would have been too narrow for camels to pass through this small opening and they would have been left outside and tended by the Bedouins who lived here as they still do today. The little cutting is known as Siq Barid or cold canyon due to the cold wind that blows down it. Like Petra it is really quite cold in the Siq when shaded from the sun.

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