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 ...

... : 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 ...

... ;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, ...

... 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 ...

... looked small, it felt as though we'd hardly made any impact on the landscape at all. After breakfast we drove into Wadi Rum and then out to Lawrence's Spring. Got stuck in the sand and had to use the sand mats to get us into position under a convenient ...

I am not here in Aqaba for its resort.  We are here for Wadi Rum, the desert area made famous by T.E. Lawrence.  First, we manage to squeeze in some viewings of Aqaba's finest antiquities, the ruins of one of the earliest Islamic ...

... 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 ...

... our sore legs made it back to our car and we started south for Wadi Rum, home to the Arab Revolt and Lawrence of Arabia. Wadi Rum is one of those government sponsored places with set high prices, but some standard to what you get. We started with a 2 ...