Chapter 1004 The most Mars-like place on Earth 2/3)
Lea Alonso is one of two women in Yang Jing’s eight-member secretary team. She was born in Barcelona, Spain and is a beautiful Catalan girl.
After obtaining a master's degree in economics and management from the University of Barcelona, Lea was taken by Joseph Hunter by chance and introduced her to Atlantic Capital. After working at Atlantic Capital for several years, Lea became one of the candidates for successors with her outstanding performance.
However, last time the Dragon Fund headquarters wanted to equip the new boss Yang Jing with a secretary team. After asking for personal opinions from Lea, Joseph recommended her, and she was lucky enough to be selected and became one of the eight people closest to the big boss in the entire Dragon Fund.
Leya’s biggest hobby is traveling. Every year she travels around during holidays. It’s like Petra’s ancient city, she visited once two years ago, so this time she visited Petra’s ancient city, Leya became a guide.
"Boss, Sophia, this is the ancient city of Petra." Liya stood beside Yang Jing and Gege, pointing to the remains of the buildings in the surrounding valley, saying, "As early as the sixth century BC, the nomads from Arabia, Nabatai, moved north from the Arabian Peninsula to this hidden valley, and established the capital of the Kingdom of Edom. Do you see the canyon hidden in the mountains there? That is the famous Sikh Mountain Gorge. At the end of that canyon is the famous Temple of Kazni."
Because I have been with Morris and the others for so many days, the secretary who originally called Yang Jing the "boss" has now learned from Morris and the others, calling Yang Jing the "Boss".
"Let's go, let's first visit these ruins outside the Sikh Mountain Gorge. The best thing to keep is to see at the end." Yang Jing said with a smile.
On the periphery, they spent about two hours visiting the ruins filled with historical vicissitudes, and then began to walk towards the Sikh Mountain Gorge.
I didn’t think this Sikh Mountain Gorge was so strange when I looked outside, but after really walking in, the group had to sigh at the wonders of nature.
The mountain gorge is extremely narrow, and the widest place is probably not ten meters wide. The narrowest place is only allowed to pass by a carriage. The cliffs on both sides of the canyon must be at least seventy or eighty meters or even higher. The hanging sun cannot even sprinkle its light into this narrow and deep canyon. The canyon is winding and twisting. In some places, it even makes people think that it is at night because there is no sunlight. If you use anything to describe this canyon, Yang Jing and Ge Ge think that "one-line sky" is the most appropriate.
"Boss, this canyon is about 1.5 kilometers long, the widest place is seven meters wide, and the narrowest place is only about two meters. The average height of the cliff walls on both sides is more than ninety meters!" Liya explained to Yang Jing and Gege while walking.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, the canyon in front of me suddenly became cheerful. The canyon expanded from a narrow width of several meters to a width of more than twenty meters. On the mountain wall to the west of the canyon, a huge temple appeared in front of everyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Temple of Kazni, one of the Seven Wonders of the New World!" Lea said excitedly. What was presented to everyone was a temple built from the mountain wall, which was more than 40 meters high. Against the backdrop of this narrow canyon, it looked particularly tall and majestic.
This is a temple with a typical Roman Corinthian style. It is divided into two layers, with fine patterns carved from the beams and door eaves, with typical late ancient Greek architectural style. The bottom floor is supported by six stone pillars with a diameter of about two meters, and the upper floor is six semicircular stone pillars chiseled out on the mountain wall. Among the three stone niches in the middle of the stone pillars, stone statues of angels, Virgin Mary and warriors with wings are carved, respectively, and the image is extremely realistic.
"The Kazni Temple is 42 meters high and twenty-seven meters wide. It is the largest building in the ancient city of Petra. This temple is said to be the treasure house used by the Nabatai people to store a large number of treasures robbed from Egypt, so it is called the Kazni Treasure House. Of course, this temple is also the tomb of the King of Nabatai and the temple used by the Nabatai people to worship the goddess Aess, the goddess in charge of fertility in Egypt. However, there is also a very widely circulated fairy tale about this temple. Do you know what it is?" Leya asked with a smile, "Oh, I can remind you that the fairy tale comes from the Arab folk tale machine "Arabian Nights".
The group thought for a long time and shook their heads.
Lea smiled happily, "You must have heard of the story of "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves"?"
Everyone nodded in unison like the children.
"This Kazni Temple is actually the treasure house that needs to be opened with the password of "Sesame Opening the Door" in the story of "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves".
"Really?" asked the princess in surprise, and then the girl asked jokingly: "If I read 'Seassea', will it be opened here?"
Lea's face suddenly turned bitter, "Sofia, this is just a legend. But don't you think this temple looks familiar?"
After Lea said this, many people nodded, and the bodyguard leader Morris smiled and said, "I seem to have seen it in some movie."
Lea snapped her fingers excitedly and said, "That's right. In fact, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3: The Holy War Ark" starring Harrison Ford was taken here. Spielberg had a big idea back then, and he actually said that there was a holy grail hidden in the Temple of Kazny... Oh, Michael Bay's "Transformers 2" also took here."
After Lea said this, everyone suddenly realized. Even Yang Jing nodded constantly. No wonder he felt familiar when he saw this temple. It turned out that the two famous movies had taken scenes here. The impression of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" was a little unclear, but Yang Jing remembered it very clearly in "Transformers 2". The tomb of the ancient leader of the Autobot seems to be in this temple...
But whether it is Spielberg or Michael Bay, this idea is big enough!
The group stayed here for about an hour before walking out along the Sikh Mountain Gorge. However, after returning to the small town of Wadimusa, Yang Jing and others did not return to Amman, the capital of Jordan. Instead, they headed south along No. 35 km. Less than 80 kilometers to the south, there is another famous tourist resort in Jordan, Wadi Rum Desert. There is also a beautiful name called Moon Valley.
The reason for going there was Lea's credit. In her words, going to that place can allow you to feel the loneliness and desolation of the moon on earth, which is the most like the surface of the moon on earth.
This reason is very good and powerful. Even Yang Jing was curious about how this place could feel the desolation and loneliness of the moon? So the group rushed there directly and lived in Lum, the largest town in Moon Valley.
Early the next morning, the group drove further into the car. The more they walked in, the more they felt desolate and lonely, it became stronger and stronger. This was a typical pure desert. At first glance, there were all kinds of weathered mountains.
"There were people moving here more than two thousand years ago." Lea turned her head in the passenger seat and explained to Yang Jing and Princess. "The Bedouin people at that time were moving in this area. There was also a temple built by the Bedouin people back then, but the distance was a bit far, and it was not as spectacular as the ancient city of Petra. Let's not watch it. Oh, by the way, the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" that won the Oscar back then was filmed here."
After a tour, everyone was not very interested. To be honest, this place is really desolate, so desolate that even though the scenery is really beautiful, it gives people a very uncomfortable feeling.
Yang Jing asked Liya: "This place is indeed quite desolate and lonely, but if I want to say that it is the most like the moon, I don't agree."
Lea asked strangely: "Boss, isn't the desolation and loneliness here like the surface of the moon?"
"Haha, this place is indeed desolate and lonely, but the color here is not the surface of the moon. I have watched many movies and TV said that the surface of the moon is dead silent, and the color is also the dead blue-gray. But look, where is the blue-gray here? And there are those weathered peaks. I think it is more like the surface of the moon than the surface of the moon."
Morris, who was standing beside him, laughed, "Haha, the boss is very correct. Leah, you said before that this was the filming location of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", but I'm afraid you don't know that Matt Damon's "The Mars Rescue", the Martian area where Matt Damon planted potatoes on Mars in the movie is actually in the desert where we are standing now. So the boss said that this is like Mars, and I raised my hands to agree!"
"Really?" Yang Jing asked in surprise.
"That's right, boss, this is indeed the main shooting site for Mars rescue, right in this Moon Valley under our feet!"
I guess Lea really didn't know about this news, so she was also confused.
The princess took out her cell phone simply and planned to check if what Morris said was right. As a result, there was no signal here. It was indeed a lonely group...
In fact, Yang Jing's feeling was right, and Morris was right. When the great director Ridley Scott was filming "Martian Rescue", the first choice for the filming location was in Australia. As a result, the local Australian government disagreed. In the end, Ridley had no choice but to choose Jordan's Wadiram Desert, known as the Rose Desert. As a result, the movie was filmed, the effect was amazing.
Chapter completed!