Photo: InspiRock

Source: 4 days in Oman & Jordan Itinerary in March

Traverse the other-worldly scenery of Jordan’s Wadi Rum. The unparalleled desert, which has provided the backdrop to movies like The Martian and Star Wars, offers travelers the opportunity to hike, camp, and take in a landscape not unlike Mars. For a true outer space experience, visitors can stay overnight for a guide-led star-gazing adventure.

Source: Exploring Mars Without Ever Leaving Earth’s Orbit in Wadi Rum, Jordan

A project to safeguard ancient inscriptions and drawings in a desert valley is helping local Bedouins to draw connections to the past.

Source: In Jordan’s desert, ancient rock art finds modern defenders

Jordan – Wadi Rum Protected Area

In Jordan’s extraordinary rose-red “Lost City” of Petra, Norma Meyer has just huffed up 700 zigzagging stone-carved steps to the ancient mountaintop High Place of Sacrifice with its sacred altar and goat blood drain.

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Jordan – Wadi Rum Protected Area

Margaret Hinkson’s Bedouin camp at Wadi Rum. October 19th the final adventure. She is leaving the remains of ancient desert nomads behind to join living nomads inhabiting the desert today.

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Jordan – Wadi Rum Protected Area

Did you spot them all?

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Photo source: CNN

Deep in the remote deserts of southern Jordan, not far from the border with Saudi Arabia, lies Wadi Rum one of the world’s most stunning natural wonders.

Source: Camping with Bedouin nomads in ‘God-like’ desert of Jordan’s Wadi Rum

Photo source: Green Prophet

Jordan’s magical red dessert is short on plastic bags, throwaway bottles, and paper litter.  Begs the question, does raw nature shame us into better environmental behavior?  If so, a stay in Wadi Rum nature reserve should be a national obligation. Most people blow past Wadi Rum in the race to Aqaba’s beaches or Petra’s ruins.

Source: Jordan’s Wadi Rum in Pictures, a Green Prophet Journey – Green Prophet