Wadi Rum and the surrounding areas of the southern Jordan desert is not only where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed, it's also where the events depicted took place. It's like Monument Valley in northern Arizona, with one interesting rock after another for miles on end. Our Bedouin driver was angry at the government for kicking Bedouins out of Wadi Rum itself, and avoided going there so as not to give them money. We absolutely insisted that he go there the morning we left, just to make sure we weren't going to Yosemite and missing Yosemite Valley. As it turned out, the area we'd seen was quite comparable to what was in Wadi Rum itself.
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Letting air out of the tires for better traction four-wheeling on sand.
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Wonderful examples of wind erosion.
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You can see that the wind was blowing a bit.
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A hike on a sand dune. Our guide let us off and told us he'd meet us on the other side of the dune.
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Disturbed sand running down the hill. I could watch these fractals for hours.
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Bushes whose roots have been exposed because the sand dune blew out from underneath them.
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Our camp out in the middle of nowhere.
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The morning is the time you take desert photos ...
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This is the main wadi, what the map puts the label Wadi Rum on.
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A week-old baby camel in the Wadi Rum village.
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On to Egypt
