Jordan: Petra’s tourism authority cracks down on Bedouin cave dwellers • FRANCE 24 English

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1. Very sad. The Government is greedy and deceived these people. They did not provide adequate housing and services.

2. The Bedouin is the main reason people visit here. The locals give Petra a good vibe and atmosphere. 😊

3. This is where they've lived for generations. It's no wonder Jordan supports Israel. They are the same monsters.

4. It is both sad and difficult to balance the need to preserve Petra as the amazing site it is and to allow the Bedouin to occupy the area to give it life and soul. Perhaps there could be more communication between the government and the Bedouin to provide a better solution. Best wishes to everyone.

5. Once again locals get screwed for the sake of tourism. Tourism is such a destructive force these days, one wonders if there's any ethics left in it.

6. I'll never visit this place because of the way the locals are mistreated.

7. indiana jones and the last crusade!!!

8. Kids playing with a propane tank…..🤥

9. Syria could have respected both these people and UNESCO. SHAME on Syria for destroying their property and water access…. 😡🥺

10. I thought Petra was like a movie set: fantastic front of the buildings and then nothing behind. I didn’t think they were real, functioning buildings.

11. Government housing would be much worse than living here! I would think anyway….

12. Here’s your cavedrellers nol

13. As soon as the dept. of antiquities was mentioned I knew what this was all about. We all know what happened in Egypt.

14. Pretty sure, the Real mecca. At least that's what some scholars say.

15. Respect these natives . I will never spend $ as a tourist until you do. It's absolutely backwards thinking to harasses the deduin natives. Shameful

16. Interesting – I hadn't imagined they were still living there. I lived in Wadi Musa and worked in Petra in 1981. At that time the powers that be were building accommodation – a village – to relocate the Bedouin inhabitants. One reason was the erosion on the site being caused by the goat-herding activities… (another may have been the large satellite TV dishes bolted to the rock-face). Really surprised that this has gone on for over forty years. A difficult situation that pits conservation values against traditional practices and, as usual, the economic agendas of all parties.

17. Help these people help Petra. They bring vitality to a pla e, otherwise its just a memorial to the dead. As a builder, the builders would feel shamed by kicking out the beduins.

18. Good this people live on scamming the tourist ! Well done Jordan government 💪💪💪💪

19. I wanted to visit because I saw a vlog where a bedouin gave food to the tourist for free. Genuinely nice person. If there are no bedouins I am not going anymore.

20. So what now they will hire people to play them , compensation is clearly need here

21. The Jordanian authorities doing to this autochthonous population exactly what the Israelis are blamed for doing to Palestinian people.

22. My friends visited recently, the bedouins offered them grass and s*x. They were shocked up to this point.

23. so these ancestors helped build a collum while at the same time they shot guns at all the human representations which is why they are all so disfigured

24. preserving the art but not the people.

    Stop visiting Petra to support the grievances of Bedouins tribe.

25. Are these the "Bedouins" who aggresivelly harass and harangue every visitor at Petra – who has already paid a fortune in entry fees – to buy cheap chinese made junk souvenirs and take a ride on a starved, maltreated animal for a huge fee? Or the ones who force their children to harrass visitors and beg for money? Or the ones who pretend that tourists need to be "rescued" and taken on astarving maltreated animal a "secret way" out if it rains a few drops – for a huge fee? Was it their junky stalls that were removed and their half starved animals who were dropping dung everywhere and whose trampling hooves have cause endless damage?

26. Very Sacred place ❤ to my heart

27. Imagine if Israel did this. Yet because its muslim on muslim, no one in the Arab world is saying a word.

28. Ahhhhhhhh PETRA!
    I will visit you someday…

29. That little half-british king always on his knees to please the strangers

30. Simple solution/comprimise, hire them to take care of the place for tourism while allowing them to still live nearby. A few can remain in the caves as watchposts/security while aiding in exhibits showcasing what it was like to live in the caves, letting atleast a spark of that communtiy remain which can be brought back temporarily for special events etc. Just no longer fulltime dwellers.