Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bedouins in Wadi Rum allow tourists to stay overnight in their traditional camps, and provide activities, meals and transport throughout the desert. They also run restaurants and small shops in the villages that provide meals and basic supplies for visitors. Popular activities in Wadi Rum include 4x4 tours, camel rides, hiking, and camping.
The reserve is located within the deep Wadi Mujib gorge, which enters the Dead Sea at 410 metres below sea level. The Reserve extends to the Kerak and Madaba mountains to the north and south, reaching 899 metres above sea level in some places. Wadi Mujib enjoys a magnificent bio-diversity that is still being explored and documented today.
Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. Masses of soaring cliffs and sandstone and granite mountains. Wadi Rum rocky formations are made mostly of sandstone (clastic sedimentary rock of quartz or feldspar) and granite rock.
The course started in Wadi Rum and took competitors through four deserts world famous for being the area of operations of Lawrence of Arabia. The terrain was a varied landscape of canyons, cliffs, sand dunes, and gorges before finishing outside the treasury of Petra.
Timna Valley Park is notable for its prehistoric rock carvings, some of the oldest copper mines in the world, and a convoluted cliff called King Solomon's pillars. On the Jordanian side is Wadi Rum, famous among rock climbers, hikers, campers, and lovers of the outdoors.
English: Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. Masses of soaring cliffs and sandstone and granite mountains. Wadi Rum is Arabic for "Roman Valley", or "Valley of the Rum", as the Greeks (or East Romans) were called in the early Byzantine era by Arab people, probably referring to Christian Byzantine monastic or ascetic communities in the area.
The Desert Forges is a game show set in the Wadi Rum desert region in Jordan.It was first aired on Channel 5 from 23 June to 25 August 2001. It is based on a French format called Les Forges du Désert, created by Pierre Sportolaro in 1999 and produced by Adventure Line Productions, also producers of Fort Boyard.
Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic Wadi Rum, is the highest mountain in Jordan. Its claimed elevation of 1,854 metres [ 2 ] is consistent with SRTM data. It is located at 29°18′30″N 35°25′45″E / 29.30833°N 35.42917°E / 29.30833; 35.42917 , near to the border with Saudi Arabia in the Aqaba Governorate of Jordan