Having visited the Wadi Rum and Petra before, this trip was an opportunity revisit and also to learn more about the rest of the country. 10,0 00 years of history was the background to learning about Nabatean, Greek, Roman and Byzantine influence in the region. Overlying this were some of the places and stories behind the three Abrahamic religions that developed in that part of the World.
Wadi Rum
Adventure Holidays to Wadi Rum
The Wadi Rum is otherworldly: a copper valley forged into the sandstone and granite rock of southwest Jordan. You’ve probably seen it already. The desert scenery has been used in a string of Hollywood blockbusters, including the Star Wars franchise, The Martian, Dune and, perhaps mostly famously of all, in Lawrence of Arabia, the 1962 classic about the British lieutenant T.E. Lawrence who is etched into local folklore.
Many of our small-group adventures to Jordan visit Wadi Rum. Take a jeep safari into the dunes and bed down there for the evening, staying in a a private Bedouin camp. Appreciate the changing colours of the sand from sunset to sunrise; after dark, gaze upwards as a galaxy of stars puts on a night-long lightshow.
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