Petra

by Christian , published on September 28, 2010

distance: 38.14km
duration: 5h 27min

Bye bye magical valley - i'll never forget you!

These young ladies where very eager to give me their adresses so they would receive postcards from exotic places

Aquiring water for cooking and showering at the village well - a futile task for this evening.

There are no supermarkets around here - in the bigger villages they have "Magazines Mixt", but i didn't get through big villages. There's also no running water, the villagers get their "Apa"(Water) from wells. Eventually i asked a guy with a bicycle where i would find some apa for my Dromedary Bag and he guided me to a nice family who where happily helping me out. In the meanwhile the guy i had asked was talking on his phone and i overheard "bicicleta" and "austria". I later realized he had called the neighbouring village, where he was from, to tell them about my arrival.

The guy i asked for "Apa"

Since we where going the same direction, i joined up with the bicycle guy and when we arrived in Petra, a couple of men where already waiting and asked me to stay for a coffee. In the end, as it was already getting dark, they persuaded me to sleep over in Petra. I was given food, hot water to wash and a room and bed for myself and overall, kindest hospitality

My host Daniel working for the romanian police