Wadi Rum Desert
We took a minibus from Aqaba to highway junction then a taxi to the village of Wadi Rum in a hope to make camp reservation on the spot, but were forced to book online at the visitor center so to get into this scenic desert valley under conservation. A wadi is a dry river bed. T E Lawrence (of Arabia) spent a significant amount of time here during the course of the British-inspired Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War (1914-1918).
The cheapest camp actually offers higher tour prices so we paid a little more then the lowest price: 48 JOD ($68) per person covering 4-hr safari tour, a traditional dinner of Bedouin nomads (chicken and vegetables cooked under the desser sand, “zarb”), an enclosed permanent tent, and breakfast. The tour covered Lawrence's Spring, Anfashieh Inscriptions, Ted sand dunes, Jebel Burdah (Big Rock Bridge/Arch), Jebel Umm Fruth (Middle Rock Bridge/Arch), and Khaz'ali Canyon (Siq al-Khazali).
The camp was solar powered, but it was cloudy the day before so we didn’t have hot water for shower. There was cell phone signal，but not data signal. The night temperature dropped to 4c/40f so we used double blankets. It was a nice surprise to ran into the Polish couple whom I met in Georgia (next to Russia) in 2013, and still remembered that I was rubbed in Turkey and live in Washington DC. What a small world that we met again in Jordan!
The cheapest camp actually offers higher tour prices so we paid a little more then the lowest price: 48 JOD ($68) per person covering 4-hr safari tour, a traditional dinner of Bedouin nomads (chicken and vegetables cooked under the desser sand, “zarb”), an enclosed permanent tent, and breakfast. The tour covered Lawrence's Spring, Anfashieh Inscriptions, Ted sand dunes, Jebel Burdah (Big Rock Bridge/Arch), Jebel Umm Fruth (Middle Rock Bridge/Arch), and Khaz'ali Canyon (Siq al-Khazali).
The camp was solar powered, but it was cloudy the day before so we didn’t have hot water for shower. There was cell phone signal，but not data signal. The night temperature dropped to 4c/40f so we used double blankets. It was a nice surprise to ran into the Polish couple whom I met in Georgia (next to Russia) in 2013, and still remembered that I was rubbed in Turkey and live in Washington DC. What a small world that we met again in Jordan!
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