February 24, 2020: The Treasury Light Show

We drove (we had a driver who was devout Muslim) into Petra too late to explore, but we decided to go to the Petra Treasury night show.  It was pretty hilarious--we walked in the dark with the only light being candles set in paper bags along the route.  We arrived and were invited to sit down on filthy rugs (which I did reluctantly), offered tea (which we declined) and then a young man played a one string instrument and played it.  Then the young man who was the spokesman gave a talk about peace, love and some other things that sounded more like the hippies in the 1960's than anything else--basically he had nothing to say.  Then TA-DA--they turn on 3 large lights that lit the Treasury in different colors.  That was it.  It was so funny and strange that we rather enjoyed it just for the experience of seeing what they thought was a great light show.