Eric is feeling much better today, so we hop on a minibus to Wadi Rum.
The journey is painless and we arrive at the visitor centre midday. We arrange accommodation in one of the Bedouin desert camps and the owner offers to pick us up, so we grab a cup of tea to wait for his arrival.
Half an hour later he arrives and takes us to his house – where we have more tea – and suggests we walk from his home in Rum Village to the actual camp, which is a couple hour hike through the desert.
So with directions that consist of “go over the sand dune, past the canyon and around the mountain”, Eric and I begin our journey.
What an amazing experience!
It’s just the two of us alone in the desert… and by “alone” I mean us, along with a few goats and a couple of camels.
The silence is amazing and we wander the red sand dunes, eventually making our way to the canyon.
When we walk up to the camp, we find our host preparing – you guessed it – tea for us. So we sit down in the communal tent to enjoy our tea and wait for the other guests to arrive, before taking in the sunset and enjoying gallayah, a traditional Bedouin stew, for dinner.
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