With sleeping under the stars to walking on Mars, Wadi Rum offers it all on Earth. A spectacular sunset to breathtaking sunrise along with astonishing culture, this desert land will take you to another universe..
Wadi Rum an ancient lost desert city mentioned in Quran is a breathtaking valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock located in southern Jordan 60 km to the east of Aqaba.
This largest wadi in Jordan is popularly known as Valley of the Moon and has the desert of nearly 74,200 hectares which feels like out of this world.
This epic desert is one of the Jordan’s most attractive destination and is surely in the bucket list of travel freaks. The fact that makes this Rum so unique is its blood red sands and sandstones mountains which creates an luring mars like landscape.
Setting your foot in Wadi Rum will certainly make you feel like you are walking on Mars. This spectacular Desert will give an experience of camping on Mars. There are various luxury camps in Wadi Rum one of which is, Memories Aicha Luxury Camp which resembles the Pods on Mars and gives and unique exposure on Earth land.
Other than that, Wadi rum also offers dome-style tents known and Star pods or bubble tents that are specially designed for stargazing purposes, it creates an outer space experience in the vast empty desert.
Wadi Rum gives an absolute out of the world experience with the most beautiful sunset, sunrise and star gazing experience. A valley of the moon to Mars on Earth Vadi Rum has been used as a set in a number of science fictional films like, Mission to Mars, Red Planet, The last days on Mars etc.
Wadi Rum mainly offers 4×4 Desert tour which includes, camel rides, camping under the stars, riding Arabian horses, hiking and rock-climbing among the massive rock formations.
Some of the most magnificent spots on Wadi Rum are, Lawrence’s spring, Sand Dunes, Small Arch, Khazali Canyon, White Valley, Nughara Canyon, Wadi Sabet, Geber Amra, Qatar Spring, Umm Fruth Rock Bridge, Jebel Umm Adami and Abu Khashaba Canyon.
Other than that Wadi Rum presents astonishing historical landscape which gives an overview of its 12,000 years ago history. With almost 25,000 petroglyphs (rock carvings), 20,000 inscriptions, and 154 archaeological sites Wadi Rum traces the early development pf alphabet.
