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What brought me to Jordan wasn’t its impressively Biblical ruins, ephemeral golden sands or the Lawrence of Arabia romance of Wadi Rum. It was a childhood glimpse of. The Treasury, Petra’s most exhilarating rock temple, made a lasting impression that has stuck for a lifetime. So when standing stock-still at its base, my childlike wonder was uncontainable. It was born from the dusty pillars, the splintered canyon chipped away by the millennia, the horses riding out to the sandstone crypt, framed by golden cliffs fading to shadow. When my eyes caught sight of the Bedouin,

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