Visit Wadi Rum, Jordan

In recent times the vast desert expanse of Wadi Rum has become famed as the location for many of Lawrence of Arabia’s exploits, but traders have passed across the landscape for thousands of years.

Canyons, offering respite from the powerful midday sun, bear Thamudic inscriptions dating back two millennia.

Landscape

Rum is a place of towering sandstone outcrops, with sheer red sides and rounded summits. Unusual geological formations such as rock bridges are easy to find, the local fauna less so though ibex, hyrax and Arabian desert cats are all resident.

Visiting Wadi Rum

A visit to Wadi Rum can be an excursion in a 4x4 driven by a local Bedouin, an overnight stay in a basic, fixed camp, or a mobile camping trip on camelback lasting several nights.