Distance: 8 km round trip
Time: 3 to 4 hours
Difficulty: easy to moderate
What you see: Visitor Center, the Siq, the Treasury, the Street of Facades, the Theatre, the Royal Tombs area, the Colonnaded Street, the Great Temple, the Temple of the Winged Lions area, and Qasr al Bint
Why it matters: this is Petra’s central axis, the route that reveals how the city expands from a narrow geological corridor into a monumental civic landscape. It gives the clearest reading of Petra’s shift from carved space to constructed architecture
