Wadi Rum · Aqaba Governorate · Jordan

Wadi Rum Protected Area

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easy

9/10

best: dawn, sunset

serene, awe-inspiring, wild

A local would say...

Lawrence of Arabia's ghost still wanders these orange dunes — and the silence is loud enough to hear.

A vast valley of towering sandstone massifs and orange dunes made famous by T.E. Lawrence, Wadi Rum offers camel rides, Bedouin camps and one of the most otherworldly landscapes on earth. The silence and scale here are impossible to overstate; the desert floor glows pink at dawn and blazing red at dusk.