Lawrence's Spring (Ain Shalaaleh) Wadi Rum

Fan-tailed Raven soared overhead in the hot dry air of a red sandstone canyon of Wadi Rum, the desert where Lawrence of Arabia found solace in the "vast and echoing" landscape.  The particular side canyon I chose was not vast, but it was echoing with ...

... boring pile of rocks).  Then we had a hot climb up to a spring and a couple carvings.  Then we stopped at Lawrence's Spring, mentioned in his book.  This was another hot scramble up the rocks, but with good views.  At the bottom were ...

... ;with sand plains in between.  At our first stop we climbed half way up one of the Jebels to see Lawrence's Spring (yes, this was named after Lawrence of Arabia).  The natural spring was not so spectacular, but the view was ...

... biscuits. It really was almost too much. After that, we met our guide who suggested that we go up and explore Lawrence's Spring (as in Lawrence of Arabia, who used to hang out with the Bedouin of Wadi Rum) up on the hillside. After getting directions, off ...

... Aoudeh was a likable enough chap, he wasn't a great guide. For example, the first place we went to was Lawrence's Spring( T. E. Lawrence  - Lawrence of Arabia, that is). He stopped the car, got out, we followed expectantly. As he lit a fag ( this ...

... it. We jumped in into a beat up land rover with our guide who didn't speak hardly any English and we started off at Lawrence's spring which is basically a spring in the rock that provides natural water to the Bedouin people which are the local people who ...