ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 11月19日 11時47分

A Bedouin woman prepares the family dinner at her home in one of the long-occupied caves near the Nabataean ruins of Petra, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, in southern Jordan. Most cave dwellers have moved into settlements.

While on assignment for National Geographic magazine earlier this year for part III of @OutofEdenWalk, I had the privilege to spend two evenings with the Bedul family in their home. However the Bedul’s didn’t live in a conventional home. Their home is a former tomb, carved into a mountain nearly 3000 years ago by the Nabatean’s who inhabited and controlled most of this region stretching from present day southern Jordan and well into the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia.

My friend and travel companion, @zeekkhdeer, along with a local Bedouin, helped me find this family, tucked far off the tourist path known as Petra. It was January of this year and we were welcomed by the entire family, offered some of this delicious bread Gassameh was cooking upon an open fire, an equally welcoming warm hearth on a cold winter’s night.

Most of the Bedouin have been moved out of Petra. Only a handful remain, carrying on their ancestral tradition that dates back hundreds of year as the cave dwellers of Petra.

This photograph didn’t make it into the magazine — not enough space. However it does appear in the iPad and online version of the magazine. Pick up next week a copy of the December 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine of my latest story, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed”, Part III of the Out of Eden Walk project.

All my best, John Stanmeyer

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