Welcome Tent at Captain’s Desert Camp Lawrence of Arabia, that complicated Englishman who fought with Bedoin desert tribes for their independence after World War I, endured days of travel by camel in the glare of the Wadi Rum desert of modern day Jordan but still fell in love with that silent valley surrounded by cliffs… Read more »
Treasury at Petra I well remember the first photos I saw of the ruins of the rose city of Petra, reflecting a two thousand year old Nabataean culture in Jordan’s desert. The most magnificent picture was of The Treasury, delicately carved into the sandstone, appearing to be the facade of a Greek temple. It looked… Read more »
Bedoin Tents Jordan is a small country carved out of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference after World War I. The current King Abdullah, of the Hashemite family, is a descendent of King Abdullah who first ruled the new country. It is still proud of its Bedouin heritage – those tribes that roamed the deserts and… Read more »
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