After Petra our next stop was the Wadi Rum desert. This for me has been a highlight. The desert landscape, made of sand-dune filled valleys surrounded by high monolighic rocks that shine red in the rising/setting sun was hauntingly beautiful and I count myself priviligded to have been here.

There are a selection of three ways to experience this place: on foot, on the back of a camel or in the back of an open-backed jeep. As nice as it would have been to ride a camel through this place, time steered us to the jeep option and we had a magnificant 5 hour tour of various places in the park. This culminated with a stop atop a small mountain to watch a stunning sunset over the desert, a meal cooked bedouin style in an oven buried in the sand, a night camping out in the desert in a bedouin tent and an early rise to watch a similarly magnificant sun-rise.

A highlight indeed.