Tag: wadi-rum
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Adventure Ride Through Wadi Rum Desert
The adventure began the minute our guide Atif turned on the engine and the truck started moving through the desert sand. Pavel and I sat in the back, happily bouncing around, grinning and doing our best to hold on to the metal rails as the truck made its way across Wadi Rum. It seemed as…
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An Unexpected Camel Ride in Wadi Rum
Our adventure in the Wadi Rum desert began with an unexpected camel ride that our guide Atif arranged for us as soon as we arrived at camp. I was surprised when the two young boys who had helped us with our truck earlier that day arrived at camp with their camels to take us for…
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A Day in a Bedouin Camp in Wadi Rum
Our taxi pulled over on the side of the road in Wadi Rum next to the only pickup truck in sight. We were surrounded by orange sand stretching in every direction, broken only by scattered desert bushes and towering gray rock formations. It looked nothing like any landscape I had ever seen before. A man…
