Welcome to Day 8 of this 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge! My Dusty Flip-Flops has nominated me for this challenge, thank you my friend! My Dusty Flip-Flops and I have been following each other’s blog adventures here on WordPress since 2017. It’s always nice to reconnect! The 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge: post one photo for 10 days with no explanation…
Category: Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part IX – Final Moments
I enjoyed some time in the morning to wander around the camp and take some final pictures… The sand was so beautiful…like an orange sea with waves. The sand wasn’t as hot as the afternoon sand the day before, but hot enough! Weird tracks in the sand! Lizards maybe? The view! This was the location…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part VIII – Camel Ride to Watch the Sunrise
This wasn’t what I was hoping for. I booked an hour and a half camel ride for Michael and I – to watch the sunrise. What I expected was an hour and a half ride on a camel through Wadi Rum as the morning sun came up over the horizon. What this actually was, was…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part VII – Zarb – Bedouin Barbecue
The highlight of the evening was the Zarb – a Bedouin barbecue. Michael and I no longer eat meat, but can still appreciate that the chicken and lamb were slowly roasted in this underground barbecue for at least 3 hours! Bedouin in the entire Arab Peninsula have cooked their food underground, in earth ovens for…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part VI – Desert Trek – Barrah Siq – Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Camp
Here, after walking through the short Valley of the Moon or Lawrence of Arabia Pass, did we come to our destination – the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Camp in Barrah Siq. The camp was not quite like this scene from the movie Lawrence of Arabia! This camp’s “parking lot” had trucks, not horses! The camp was…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part V – Desert Tour – Barrah Siq – Valley of the Moon or Lawrence of Arabia Pass
Our guide dropped us off at the top of a sand dune, located in a short valley. He called this valley the Lawrence of Arabia Pass, a pass where the legendary British officer TE Lawrence traveled during the Arab Revolt. What I also read on the internet about this location is that it is called…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part IV – Desert Tour – Sudden Wind & Rain Storm!
Our next stop was a gorge in the desert – to stand at the edge of a cliff to look out at another spectacular view of the desert. While we were driving there, the skies suddenly darkened as a storm blew in, bringing strong winds and rain! What was FANTASTIC about this was how the…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part III – Desert Tour – Alameleh Inscriptions
Our second stop was this section of rock carved with petroglyphs and graffiti. I can’t remember exactly what our guide told us, except that he referred to the markings as graffiti by ancient Bedouin traders. What little information I was able to find on the internet was this: these markings are throughout Wadi Rum. they…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part II – Desert Tour – Star Wars & Martian Landscapes
Our actual tour of Wadi Rum had MANY different interesting aspects. I’ll begin this Desert Tour blog series with the actual landscape itself and how exciting it was to be trucking through the same desert used as locations for movies such as Star Wars and The Martian. The rock formations are so unique, so bizarre…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part I – The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Visitor Centre & Mazayen Rum Camp
As we neared Wadi Rum, the dramatic sandstone landscape it is known for started to evolve. Here is a camel walking along the road as we approached our first stop before camp, the Wadi Rum Visitor Centre. Then this magnificent rock formation appeared and is called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom after British soldier T.E. Lawrence’s…