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Wadi Rum Slideshow
Wadi Rum
Travel Blogs from Wadi Rum, Jordan
Lawrence of Arabia was filmed here
Today we left Aqaba and headed north. Our first stop was a world famous area called Wadi Rum. It is best known for being the film set for the classic Lawrence of Arabia. We hired a 4X4 driver and off into the desert we went. Out driver was Bedouin and he ...
Desert Beauty
... to visit a number of deserts and there is no such thing as a typical desert. A Wadi is a valley, with or without water. Wadi Rum does feel like a valley as everywhere we drove is flanked by huge outcrops of rocks and mountains. The valley floor however is ...
Tonight we dine in Wadi Rum!
... until we finally stopped at a bedouin camp for the night. Of course, we kept shouting out, "Tonight we dine at Wadi RUM!" throughout the day. Finally, we did dine at Wadi Rum! A good meal in the large Bedouin tent. Then we wandered outside ...
Jordan, quickly
only here for two days to see petra, it was nice, a bit to expensive for my liking ...
Beautiful Petra and the beautiful Bedouin!
What an awesome day! It was hard work in parts but I had so much fun. We got up at 5:30am to have a shower (we weren't allowed to have one directly after the Turkish Bath) and we left the hotel at 7am. By about 7:30am we were on our way into Petra (only ...
Under the stars with the most beautiful talent
What an amazing day!!! We drove to Wadi Rum and saw some Beduin villages. We drove off into the desert to witness the most beautiful and soft red desert sand. Our driver also showed us how to make soap out of a local plant. I, personally did not use it as ...
Wadi Rum - land of Lawrence of Arabia
... , so there's some juices of Lawrence still left over no doubt. Had a night with the Jordanian Bedouin people in the desert of Wadi Rum - the scenery is simply spectacular (they say it's like being on the moon, but I still felt quite heavy) and we ...
A hike in the desert
... a rather grey looking sky. Moved my belongings inside the tent as Abdul was predicting rain. After breakfast we set off for a hike in Wadi Rum. I'm glad it was overcast as it was still very hot and may have been unbearable in full sun. It was a great ...
In the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia
... seen the sandy desert of Wadi Rum with its fantastic mountains carved by thousands of years of wind and water. Wadi Rum is the largest of Jordan’s six nature reserves and the movie was shot here because this is the place where Lawrence crossed the ...
Desert Quiet
... 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 ...
Zand, zacht zand, hard zand, mix zand, karrespoor
... m aan moesten. En A was vooral een beetje ongepast aan het flirten voor een vent van ruim 40.. We wilden eigenlijk gewoon liften naar Wadi Rum, maar G had wel een vriend die taxi reed voor een vriendenprijsje.. Nou, voor 25 JD met zn drieen kan je wel 80 ...
Real off roading!!
... a chilled brekky and then hit the road around 11am. One hour and one grocery stop later we arrived at the entrance gates to the Wadi Rum protected area. We paid the entrance fee of 5JD each plus 20JD for Jabs then headed into the desert. The plan was to ...