Petra is one of the very few places in Middle East I really want to go... but I am not sure I would endure the trouble of going there, being an ordinary tourist.
My friend had made a daytrip to see Petra during her trip to Israel. It was an organized tour. On her way back, when entering Israel, she was detained for 9 hours, and was under interrogation the whole time. She wowed NEVER visiting Israel again. My friend is an American from Amenia when she's a child, holding US passport.
2 small things:
Deja Vu, not Wu (French)
Old King of Jordan - his last queen, Queen Noor, is a beautiful American. Her father was a high-ranking exec of ExxonMobil back then and that was how she was in Jordan as a teen. Their marriage is a true romantic story.