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Khubtha
mountain:
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There
are several ways to climb this mountain, the main one is a
wide stairway that starts around the corner after the royal
tombs and just before Sextius Florentinus tomb, the view from
the top of this mountain is beautiful, you can see the center
of Petra, with Um al Biara opposite to you, a nice place for
watching the sunset, you can see some carved rooms, a religious
place for sacrificing and some inscriptions on the top and
on the way, you can also see from the south west side a nice
view of the treasury from top, on the east side of this mountain
and accessed from that side, is the Crusader's fortress.
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Siq al
Muthlim:
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This canyon
goes through Khubtha mountain, starts from the beginning of
the Siq, and
leads to Wadi Mataha, north east of the center of Petra, not
far from Sextius Florentinus tomb, it is a nice way to enter
or exit from Petra, it starts with the tunnel dug by the Nabataeans
that allows the water of Wadi Musa to enter Petra without
getting into the Siq, so it is the main path for rain water,
rain in the south desert of Jordan can fall suddenly and in
big amounts in the rainy season, it causes floods that are
really dangerous, and this canyon is the last place you want
to be if that happens, please make sure not any kind of rain
is expected before you get into this siq. All through the
Muthlim Siq you can see beautiful rock formations carved by
water, and almost at the end of it there are some sculptures
carved by Nabataeans representing gods, it gets its name al
Muthlim "the dark" from the fact that it gets dark fast there.
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