Jordan

We arrived in Jordan. The Jordanian emigration queried our visa we told them "we are on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. "We were put into a empty room." after a very long five hours we were released with no explanation as to why we were detained.
It was with great relief we found our self, back out in the sun we soon forgot the room. We headed for YHA in Jerusalem. The next day we spent doing the tourist bit, went to the holy places. The back wall of the YHA was next to the border with Israel the warden was always joking some day the Israelis will come over the wall maybe he was not joking, as you will read later.
After two days we went to Petra the rose red city. This is well worth a visit, the walk in indescribable, perhaps claustrophobic, high walls several hundred feet high, with just a strip of blue sky can be seen. This wadi twists and turns so you can not see far a head, looks like a dead end round every corner. THEN SUDDENLY as you turn the last corner The Treasury appears it is carved out of a rock face.
We found a cave to stay so we could take our time and explore the fantastic building carved in to the sandstone cliff faces. A Arab came to our cave led us to believe snakes lived in this cave. He took us to a larger cave were he had set-up a coke a kola stall. He wanted us to look after his stall as he had to go somewhere, he trusted us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra
All to soon we returned to Jerusalem. To Georges and my amazement Billy said he wanted to go to Israel. That meant he could no-longer travel through Arab country's his trip would be finished. George and I walked with him as far as we could to the one border that he could cross into Israel shook hands the next time we would see Billy would be in Glasgow.