Leah Alonso is one of two women in Yang Jing's eight-member secretarial team, she was born in Barcelona, Spain, and is a beautiful Catalan girl.After graduating from the University of Barcelona with a master's degree in economics and management, Leah was caught by Joseph Hunt by chance, who introduced her to Atlantic Capital.After a few years at Atlantic Capital, Leah emerged as one of the candidates for a successor due to her outstanding performance.However, last time the headquarters of the Evil Dragon Fund wanted to equip the new boss Yang Jing with a secretarial team, Joseph recommended her after consulting Leah's personal opinion, and she was lucky to be selected and became one of the eight people closest to the big boss in the entire Evil Dragon Fund.Leah's biggest hobby is traveling, and she travels around every year during the holidays.It's like the ancient city of Petra, she had been here once two years ago, so this time to visit the ancient city of Petra, Leah became a guide."
Chief, Sophia, this is the ancient city of Petra."
Leah stood beside Yang Jing and Gege, pointing to the remains of buildings in the surrounding valley and said, "As early as the sixth century B.C., the Nabataeans, a nomadic people from Arabia, moved north from the Arabian Peninsula to this hidden valley and established the capital of the Kingdom of Erdom here.See that canyon hidden in the mountains over there?
It is the famous Sikh Gorge, and at the end of that gorge is the famous Kazni Temple. ”Because they have been with Morris for so many days, the secretaries who originally called Yang Jing "boss" have now learned from Morris and called Yang Jing "boss"."
Let's go, let's take a tour of these ruins outside the Sikh Gorge first, and the best thing to stay for the last look."
Yang Jing said with a smile.On the outskirts, they spent about two hours touring the ruins full of historical vicissitudes before starting their way towards the Sikh Gap.I didn't think this Sikh Gorge was peculiar from the outside just now, but after really walking in, the group had to sigh at the magic of nature.The gorge is extremely narrow, the widest place is estimated to be less than ten meters wide, and the narrowest place allows a horse-drawn carriage to pass through, and the cliffs on both sides of the canyon must be at least seventy or eighty meters or even higher, and the sun hanging high cannot even spill its light into this narrow and secluded canyon, the canyon is winding, and in some places because there is no sunlight, it even makes people think that it is night.If there is anything to describe this canyon most appropriately, Yang Jing and Gege feel that "a line of sky" is the most appropriate."
Chief, this canyon is about 15 kilometers long, the widest part is seven meters wide, the narrowest place is only about two meters, and the average height of the cliffs on both sides is more than ninety meters!"
As Leah walked, she explained to Yang Jing and Gege.After walking for about fifteen minutes, the canyon in front of me suddenly opened up, the canyon expanded from a narrow few meters wide to more than twenty meters wide, and on the mountain wall on the west side of the canyon, a huge temple appeared in front of everyone."
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Kazni Temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the New World!"
Leah said excitedly, presenting everyone with a temple carved out of the mountain wall, more than forty meters high, and against the backdrop of this narrow canyon, it was even more tall and majestic.It is a temple in a typical Roman Corinthian style, with two floors, beams and eaves carved with fine patterns, typical of late Greek architecture.The ground floor is supported by six stone pillars with a diameter of about two meters, and the upper floor has six semicircular stone pillars hewn out of the mountain wall, and in the three stone niches in the middle of the stone pillars, the stone statues of angels, virgins and winged warriors are carved respectively, which is extremely realistic."
The Temple of Kazni is forty-two meters high and twenty-seven meters wide, making it the largest structure in the entire ancient city of Petra.The temple is said to have been used by the Nabataeans to store a large number of treasures looted from Egypt, so it is called the Kazni Treasury.Of course, the temple is also the tomb of the Nabataean king and the shrine used by the Nabataeans to worship the goddess of fertility in Egyptian mythology, Ethis.But there's a popular fairy tale about this temple, do you know what it is?
”Leah smiled and asked, "Oh, can I remind you that the fairy tale comes from the Arabian Nights, an Arabic folk tale machine." ”The group shook their heads after thinking for a long time.Leah laughed happily, "You should have heard the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, right?"
”Everyone nodded in unison like the children."
This Kazni temple is actually the treasure house in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" that needs to be opened with the password of 'open the door with sesame'.""
Really?"
Gege asked in surprise, and then the girl asked teasingly: "Then if I recite the sentence 'open sesame', will this place be opened?"
”Leah's face suddenly became bitter, "Sophia, this is just a legend.But don't you think this temple is familiar?
”When Leah said this, many people nodded, and the head of the bodyguard, Morris, smiled: "I seem to have seen it in some movie." ”Leah snapped her fingers excitedly and said, "That's right."
In fact, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3: Holy War" starring Harrison Ford was filmed here, Spielberg's brain was big enough to say that there was a holy grail hidden in the Kazni Temple, Oh, by the way, Michael Bay's "Transformers 2" was also filmed here. ”As soon as Leah said this, everyone suddenly realized.Even Yang Jing kept nodding his head, no wonder he felt familiar when he saw this temple just now, it turned out that the two famous movies had been filmed here.The impression of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" is a little unclear, but Yang Jing of "Transformers 2" remembers it very clearly.The tomb of the Autobot Ancient Leader seems to be in this temple, but whether it's Spielberg or Michael Bay, this brain hole is big enough!
The group stayed here for about an hour before walking out along the Sikh Gap.However, after returning to the small city of Wadi Musa, Yang Jing and his team did not return to Amman, the capital of Jordan, but went south along the 35th kilometer, less than 80 kilometers to the south, which is another famous tourist attraction in Jordan, Wadi Rum Desert, which also has a beautiful name called Moon Valley.The reason why I went there was also a credit to Leah.In her words, it is that going to that place can give you a sense of the loneliness and desolation of the moon on Earth, that place is the most moon-like place on Earth.This reason is very good and powerful, even Yang Jing is curious about how this place can feel the desolation and loneliness of the moon?
So the group rushed straight there, and settled in Rum, the largest town in the Valley of the Moon.Early the next morning, the group drove further in, and the further they went, the stronger the smell of desolation and loneliness became.This is a typical pure sand desert, and at first glance, except for the slightly reddish desert, it is the strange mountains that have been weathered."
It's been around here for more than 2,000 years."
Leah sat in the co-pilot seat and turned her head to explain to Yang Jing and Gege, "The Bedouins were active in this area at that time.There is also a temple built by the Bedouins, but it is a bit far away, and it is not as spectacular as the ancient city of Petra, so we won't go to see it.Oh yes, the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", which won the Oscar for Best Picture that year, was filmed here. ”After a round trip, everyone's interest was a little low.To be honest, this place is really desolate, so desolate that even if the scenery is really beautiful, it gives people a very uncomfortable feeling.Yang Jing asked Leah: "It's really desolate and lonely here, but if you want to say that this place is most like the moon, I don't agree." ”Leah asked curiously, "Chief, isn't the desolation and loneliness here like the surface of the moon?"
”"Hehe, it's desolate and lonely here, but the color here doesn't want to be the surface of the moon.I watch a lot of movies and TV and say that the surface of the moon is dead and the color is that dead blue-gray.But look here, where is the blue-gray?
And then there are the weathered peaks, which I see are more like the surface of Mars than the surface of the moon. ”Morris laughed loudly, "Haha, the boss is very right.Leah, you said before that this is the filming location of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", but I'm afraid what you don't know is that the "Martian" played by Matt Damon, the area of Mars where Matt Damon, who grows potatoes on Mars, is actually in the desert where we are standing now.That's why the boss said it was like Mars, and I raised my hands in agreement!
”"Really?"
Yang Jing asked in surprise."
That's right, Chief, this is indeed the main filming location of The Martian, right here in this Moon Valley at our feet!"
It is estimated that Leah really doesn't know about this news, so she is also said to be confused.Gege simply took out his mobile phone, intending to check if what Morris said was right, but there was no signal here, and it was really a lonely group In fact, Yang Jing's feeling was right, and what Morris said was right, when the great director Ridley Scott filmed "The Martian", the first choice of filming location was in Australia, but the Australian local government did not agree, and finally Ridley had to choose Jordan, the Wadi Rum Desert, which is known as the Rose Desert, after the movie was made, The effect is amazing.So, this desert is actually most like Mars, not the Moon.