Wadi Rum

Wadi Rum is a protected area in southern Jordan encompassing 720 square kilometres of desert valley. The landscape is unlike any other desert: massive sandstone and granite formations rising from a floor of red and orange sand. The Bedouin community manages tourism through jeep tours and desert camps. The experience of spending a night here — the absence of light pollution, the temperature drop after sunset, the stars — is something that the Petra day trip does not deliver and is worth planning for separately.