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About the Castles Made of Sand promotion
The ancient mountain city of Petra in southern Jordan is probably best known among Westerners for its cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1989 movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You remember the scene: Sean Connery and Harrison Ford ride on horseback toward what looks like a Greco-Roman temple built into the side of a rose-colored mountain. It sounds like a movie set, but it was the real life Petra - truly a city of ancient mystery.
As Rose Macaulay wrote in 1953 in Pleasure of Ruins: "If ever a dead city held romance it is Petra....hewn out of ruddy rock in the midst of a mountain wilderness, sumptuous in ornament and savage in environs, poised in wildness like a great carved opal glowing in a desert, this lost caravan city staggers the most experienced traveler."
Petra began a long decline in the third century CE, when caravan routes shifted elsewhere. Later the Crusaders controlled it, and built a mountaintop castle. But after Saladin drove them back to Europe in the 12th century, Petra vanished from the world's maps. Its location was known only to certain Bedouins, perhaps descendants of the Nabateans, who used it as their home base.
Early in the 19th century, J. L. Burkhardt, a Swiss explorer, thought that the stories he heard about a secret mountain enclave sounded a lot like the Petra that writers on ancient history were then calling "a lost city." He went there in 1812, disguised as an Arab, and became the first westerner at Petra in seven centuries.
Today, Petra is a tourist site that attracts visitors from all over the world. While it isn't the easiest tourists destination to reach, when you arrive, it will be an experience you won't soon forget. If you do find yourself in Petra, Jordan, don't forget to call home and tell your friends about it with your international cell phone and Jordan SIM card. No contract or monthly fees so how do I buy more airtime?
Your Jordan cell phone service is all prepaid so you only buy airtime as you need it. Airtime vouchers are available locally throughout Jordan at local convenience stores. Click the 'View Details' link under the included SIM card(s) to learn more about adding airtime.
Why rent or roam when you can own?
In the past your only options were expensive: to pay over $1/minute for a cell phone rental or more expensive: pay international roaming surcharges to your local home wireless provider. With Telestial's Castles Made of Sand promotion, you can now avoid those exorbitant rental and per minute charges often associated with a cell phone rental.
Here, there and almost everywhere!
Don't forget that the cell phone included with your Castles Made of Sand promo is capable of working in over 170 countries and can be used with any of our Local SIM cards or Roaming SIM cards!
All Special Promotions are valid until May 31, 2011
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