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Wadi Rum Slideshow
Wadi Rum
Travel Blogs from Wadi Rum, Jordan
Bedouins and the desert: Wadi Rum
... ’t leaving for another 3 or 4 hours. So in the end we opted for a taxi to take us an hour up the Desert Highway to Wadi Rum. He was a lovely man who sang to us in Arabic along the way. We weren’t really sure how to arrange the details of our ...
Lost in the Desert for 40 years!!!
... Keith has a grand plan, but I don't think we have time to do it. The rule is to have a local guide whenever visiting Wadi Rum. Simple enough. We show up at the visitor center, get our entrance ticket and head down to the Bedouin Village, ...
Jordan
... same direction anyway, I decided to just tag along with them . . . First stop after Aqaba port in Jordan was the enchanted desert landscapes of Wadi Rum. Wadi Rum is along the lines of Monument Valley in the U.S., except much more extensive and much ...
Funnest desert camp ever
... camp ın the desert and after 15 hours of traveling hung over on 2 hours of sleep we fınally arrıved in Wadi Rum. The car was driving on small dark roads in the middle of nowhere and eventually stopped. There was another car waiting to take ...
Petra Again!
... and dusty with no real washing facilities, being clean feels like such a luxury! After lunch we set off on a 2 hour bus journey to Wadi Rum. This time we arrived at our camp before it was dark and were ready for our dinner when it was served. Once ...
Wadi Rum & the Sounds of Silence
... to check my shoes for scorpions in the morning. I am told by my guide, Ibrahim, that even Wadi Rum has experienced weird weather abnormalities lately such as snow a month ago. In the desert, there are no TV antennas, ...
" My Journey to Wadi Rum"
My journey to Wadi Rum was wonderful. I have stayed at the Captain's camp, the tents were made of goat's hair. Inside the tent, there's a bed, towels, candles, matches, pillows, covers, and etc. The toilet were built in a separate area and it's clean ...
Wadi Rum: Desert solitude
All travel guides that we picked up warned that if in Jordan, Wadi Rum is not to be missed. Not to be mistaken for something you drink with Coca-Cola, Wadi Rum is a pictureresque desert and mountain region situated in southern Jordan. It has been ...
Texting while riding a camel
... No Man's Land section. I much prefer my image of night-blooming jasmine.) Rich and I had a plan, of course, to go into the Wadi Rum (think stark desert--in fact, think of the desert scenes from Lawrence of Arabia, as much of that film was shot in the Wadi ...
starry desert in caravan camp
... have been travelling in Jordan and have found it a beautiful country. I have yet to see Petra but will do very soon. I stayed in Wadi Rum desert recently in a small and quiet camp, the hospitality was amazing. It was cold, but the sky was clear and so the ...
Found Lawrences Train
And then went around the whole of the Wadi in a run down 4x4, sad I could not be behind the wheel. Sarah was happy to have been walking where one of the great Englishmen of her childhood ...
Day in the desert
Up pre dawn and away by 6.30 to the desert. Had booked an overnight trip in Wadi Rum with a recommended company and that's when the experience started – everything slowed to desert pace. There is no business until tea (two or 3 glasses has been ...
Woken by Camels...
... in our sleeping bags on the ground...hmm appears not, our tents had single beds in them, now that is my idea of camping! Wadi Rum is amazing desert, but with all these crazy big pink rock formations everywhere for as far as the eye can see. Once ...
Wadi Rum
... Tour als auch eine Jeep-Tour unternehmen wollten, entscheiden wir uns dieses mit NAJAH HWAIMEL zu tun. NAJAH ist ein Beduine aus Wadi Rum und arbeitet seit einigen Jahren als lokaler Touristenführer. Nähere Informationen zu Touren erhält man auch ...
Jordan: Chapter 2 - The Christian Restaurateur
... . We both lit up and exhaled, blowing smoke towards the front door and the traffic outside. We talked about what I was doing in Jordan (tourism) and where I was from (US, but studying in Cairo). I guessed probably didn't like Bush. I was wrong. "I'm a ...
Camel Riding is a Skill!
Wadi Rum was next on our itinerary as we had planned to sleep in a Bedouin camp overnight and explore the area made famous by T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). The tribes speak highly of him as he inspired the Bedouin to share their culture with visitors ...
Bedouin Stay
... at 5:45am with my alarm going off. I had to be up, packed, and ready to go for bus ride to Wadi Rum. Wadi Rum a famous desert in Jordan because T.E. Lawrence wrote about it in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Although this land is protected, there are still ...
Camping in the desert
Unfortunately, we don't quite make it to the Wadi Rum in time for sunset, although not for lack of trying. The van arrives around 4:30 and it's still light out, so things seem promising. But we soon learn that seeing the sunset is not a simple matter of ...
Wadi Rum desert
... in time for me to rent a truck and driver and head out to the desert itself. I must say, the Wadi Rum does not impress like other sites in Jordan. Having just spent a considerable amount of time in Namibia, I would go as far as to say ...
The magnificently beautiful Wadi Rum
... 22 years old, speaks reasonably well English and is a little shy initially. However, he is able to answer all our questions about Wadi Rum and the Bedouin lifestyle, being a Bedouin himself. He was right on time to greet us at the Visitor’s Centre ...
Two Wheel Drive
During our travels in Jordan, our guide often commented on how his favourite part of Jordan was Wadi Rum and that we were going to have a great time there. We weren't really sure why, the itinerary simply stated that it was a trip into desert on ...
A Very Different New Years Eve
... . Still I accept I may have felt different if it had been a warm night and we hadn't have had the problems of the party. So we left the camp and headed for Aqaba, where we were to leave Jordan and take the ferry to Egypt. ...
Wild colours paint the sands
... and I was still a bit sick so I did not need to do any more climbing). Pictures are worth a thousand words when describing the Wadi Rum so I think I'll let them do the talking for this entry. The 4x4ing was great, I would have liked to stay out longer. ...
Jul 26, 2010
A Change of Plans
... . I called Faleh who had offered to show me around for 3 days. He was kind enough to pick me up at the border. I hadn't seen Wadi Rum or Aqaba yet so that is where we went. Aqaba is the Eilat of Jordan - It is right on the Red Sea where people swim, ...
"Vast, Echoing, and God-Like"
... color. After crossing into Jordan for the second time since I arrived here in the Middle East, we took a taxi ride to Wadi Rum, an expansive desert region protected and preserved by the Jordanian government. Described by T.E. Lawrence as "vast, echoing, ...