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	Wadi Rum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in south west Jordan.
		Wadi Rum is probably best known to many people because of its connection with the British officer T.E. Lawrence, who was based here during the Arab Revolt of 1917-18.
		Wadi Rum was used for the film Red Planet as the surface of Mars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wadi_Rum (252 words)

	Jordan MICE 2004
		In fact, Wadi Rum was the headquarters of Prince Faisal bin Hussein and T.E. Lawrence during World War I, to support the Arab revolt against Turkish Ottoman rule, and Lawrence became a legendary figure for his key role in the fight for the Arab cause.
		Wadi Rum is a protective environment and rare species of animals and plants can be found, including the unique Ibex, mountain goat, as well as the Sand Cat – a close relative of the domestic cat.
		Wadi Rum is also home to the Camel Spider – feared by the local Bedouin for the harm it can do to camels, but harmless to Man. The area is also a birdwatcher’s haven, with vultures, buzzards, and eagles to be seen in a fantastic setting.
	www.miceonline.net /jordan/dest_wadi.htm (1243 words)

	WADI RUM
		Wadi Rum is a vast house of clues from the past -- for almost every valley, mountainside or large fallen boulder has some vestige or hint of human activity that took place here during the past several thousand years.
		More recently, Rum was the scene of the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia during World War I, and the setting for the film that carried his name.
		Wadi Rum has recently been discovered by the world's mountain climbers and hikers, attracted by its many as yet unscaled peaks, spectacular natural scenery, ase of access, comfortable year-round climate, and variety of available walks, climbs,hikes and treks catering to advanced climbers or novice hikers alike.
	members.tripod.com /jor_guide/id15.html (470 words)

	Jordan - Touristic Sites - South of Amman
		With its "moonscape" of ancient valleys and towering sandstone mountains rising out of the sand, Wadi Rum is also home to several Bedouin tribes who live in scattered camps throughout the area.
		Climbers are especially attracted to Wadi Rum because of its sheer granite and sandstone cliffs, while hikers enjoy its vast empty spaces.
		The main route to Wadi Rum, and the small village of Rum, branches east off the Desert Highway about five kilometers south of Quweira and 25 kilometers north of Aqaba.
	www.kinghussein.gov.jo /tourism6e.html (1460 words)

	Wadi Rum
		Wadi Rum is probably best known because of its connection with the enigmatic British officer T.E. Lawrence, who was based here during the Great Arab Revolt of 1917-18.
		The main route to Wadi Rum, and the small village of Rum, branches east off the Desert Highway about five kilometres south of Quweira and 25 kilometres north of Aqaba.
		All you need for hiking in Wadi Rum is plenty of water (at least 2-3 litres per day), some food, good shoes and a sleeping bag.
	www.tourism.jo /HistoricalSites/wadirum.asp (802 words)

	Ammar Khammash Archives - Wadi Rum
		Wadi Rum is an ideal “exercise destination” it can help individuals caught-up in urban, unhealthy duties, to shape up their body and spirit.
		Rum is relatively cooler than the eastern desert and its dry clean air is therapeutic and invigorating.
		Wadi Rum is an experience in altering your visual scale; its vertical elevations are so vast that they can re-format your sense of proportions, completely re-setting the visual calibrations between vertical and horizontal.
	www.mahjoob.com /ammar/ak26062002.htm (917 words)

	Wadi Rum, Jordan
		Serious trekkers will be drawn to Wadi Rum, with challenging climbs some 1750 m high, while casual hikers can enjoy an easy course through the colorful hills and canyons.
		These hospitable and friendly desert people are settled in Wadi Rum in scattered nomadic camps throughout the area.
		Wadi Rum is an ideal location for hiking, climbing and trekking.
	www.atlastours.net /jordan/wadirum.html (418 words)

	Petra Regional Authority- Wadi Rum
		Famously described by T. Lawrence as "vast, echoing and God-like," and acclaimed by many as one of the most stunning desertscapes in the world, Wadi Rum is a nature-lover's paradise.
		Wadi Rum holds plants both rare and endemic to its ecosystem.
		The vast beauty of Wadi Rum can be further explored on 4x4 vehicle tours that take you deep into the heart of the desert.
	www.petra-pra.com.jo /Rumen.htm (306 words)

	go2petra.com, Wadi Rum - Jordan.
		Wadi Rum is a naturally occurring work of art created by the Rift Valley.
		Once submerged in the waters of the Red Sea, the desert of Wadi Rum, located in the south, is now one of the most beautiful parts of Jordan.
		Wadi Rum is a favorite place in Jordan for many tourists and Jordanians alike: we at go2petra.com highly recommend that you visit and camp there.
	www.go2petra.com /jordan_wadirum.htm (634 words)

	Wadi Rum Introduction and general information, (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, in Wadi Rum the water comes directly from the aquifer in Dissieh, and is very pure.
		The Wadi Rum equivalent of two star hotels are the camps in Dissieh, which are close to the northern end of Wadi Um Ishrin.
		To leave Wadi Rum, for any destinations other than Aqaba or Petra, or at any other times of day than early in the morning, you should make your way to the Rashidiya Junction, and look for a bus going north or south as the case may be.
	www.jordanjubilee.com.cob-web.org:8888 /visitjor/rum1.htm (3042 words)

	*Welcome to wadi rum *
		Wadi Rum is like the moon scope of ancient valleys and towering weathered sandstone mountains rising out of the white and pink colored sands.
		A desert police fort is located at the entrance to Wadi Rum, where the police are not mounted on horse or jeep, but on camels--ships of desert.
		Today Wadi Rum challenges climbers to scale its sheer granite and sandstone cliffs, to hike along mountain trails and valleys, to trek deep into the enchanting landscape in four wheel drive vehicles, or to join tow or three day desert safaris on camel back or 4x4 vehicles.
	www.desert.wadirum.atallah.8m.net (851 words)

	Climbing Jordan's Wadi Rum on Mountainzone.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When arrived in Wadi I wanted the cliffs to keep pushing up from the rose-colored sand dunes and burst the relentless sun that was mercilessly beating down on my exposed face.
		My plan to get to Wadi was to grab one of the busses that shuttled the locals around the country, but after spending two days in the seaside town of Aqaba I learned that schedules were meaningless in Jordan, especially to places as remote as Wadi Rum.
		Wadi Rum was brought to the attention of the world during WWI through the exploits of T.E. Lawrence who worked with the local Bedouins and used the area as an important staging point of the war.
	climb.mountainzone.com /2004/story/climb_jordan/index.html (850 words)

	FOCUS on WADI RUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ajestic Wadi Rum -- a vast, silent landscape of ancient riverbeds and pastel-coloured stretches of sandy desert, suddenly shattered by towering sandstone mountains and sheer, shimmering cliff-faces is only one hour drive from Petra to the east.
		Wadi Rum is hauntingly beautiful, and always privately moving -- a marvel of God's enduring creation, against which the measure of humankind seems so small and fleeting.
		Many adventurous travellers camp in small groups inside Wadi Rum, to capture the lasting memory of a warm summer night's moonrise against a backdrop of the star-filled southern sky of Jordan.
	www.focusmm.com /jordan/jo_wadir.htm (380 words)

	Wadi Rum travel guide - Wikitravel
		Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley (wadi in Arabic) in the southern Jordan.
		Wadi Rum is a short detour from the Desert Highway between Amman and Aqaba (and not too far from Petra).
		The genuine attraction of the Wadi Rum is the desert itself, best accessed in a hired four wheel drive or on a camel.
	wikitravel.org /en/Wadi_Rum (567 words)

	Wadi Rum
		Wadi Rum is like a moon scape of ancient valleys and towering weathered sandstone mountains rising out of the white and pink colored sands.
		A desert police fort is located at the entrance to Wadi Rum, where the police are not mounted on horse or jeep, but on camels-ships of the desert.
		Today Wadi Rum challenges climbers to scale its sheer granite and sandstone cliffs, to hike along mountain trails and valleys, to trek deep into the enchanting landscape in four-wheel-drive vehicles, or to join two or three day desert safaris on camel-back or 4x4 vehicles.
	www.middleeast.com /wadirum.htm (297 words)

	SPAN - April 2000 - Wadi Rum Desert
		The majestic landscape of the Wadi Rum Desert in south Jordan is well known around the world for its towering red sandstone walls and orange sand dunes leaning against them.
		The desert country of the Wadi Rum is 290 kms south of the capitol city of Amman, or 40 kms north of Aqaba (Red Sea).
		Proceed 11.6 km on road to Rum Village at the end of the pavement.
	www.naturalarches.org /span-0004-WadiRum.htm (1710 words)

	Cristian_Uluru Wadi Rum Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		You must notice that if you want to go to Wadi Rum during the winter season you can find bad weter and it's very cold (when I was there I need to wear a windcheater due the heavy cold wind that blew that day).
		By the way, I think that Wadi Rum is fantastic also with bad weather becuse there is a different light and something of special.
		Wadi Rum was create by a geological fracture on the earthly crust and some high block of rocks fell down from the Afro-Arabic clod.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/82cb6/22aabb (596 words)

	wadi rum
		Otherwise known as Valley of the Moon, the landscape of Wadi Rum with its immensity, colour and awe-inspiring shapes creates an almost supernatural atmosphere.
		Bedouin camps are evident in the Wadi, which is still home to a number of bedouin families, who welcome visitors with the hospitality and generosity that bedouins are so famous for.
		In the morning, Wadi Rum is cold but by noon the sun is so hot that it will burn in seconds, so it is better to take a hat and scarf to cover the head and neck.
	www.nebo.com.jo /jordan/rum.htm (210 words)

	planetFear / Articles / Travel / Jordan: A Week in Wadi Rum
		On one side of the road are a dozen camels, uttering unearthly gurglings as their drivers cow them into crouching positions and balance the last of the nervously grinning tourists onto their ornate saddles.
		A Bedouin route to the summit of Jebel Rum.
		This is the biggest cost associated with a trip to Wadi Rum, but it may not be as expensive as you think.
	www.planetfear.com /article_detail.asp?a_id=567 (4782 words)

	Jordan - Riding tours from Wadi Rum to Petra with Hidden Trails
		We then meet the horses and ride across sandy trails to the rock formations of Wadi Rum, Jordan's answer to the Grand Canyon and undoubtedly the largest and most magnificent of Jordan's desert landscapes.
		Wadi Rum was the scene of the exploits of "Lawrence of Arabia" and the setting for the film that carried his name.
		At an elevation of 2,700 ft. the 30 mile-long Wadi is characterized by dark, granite rocks and bizarre mountains of sandstone in all shades of red.
	www.hiddentrails.com /africa/jordan/jordan-wadi.htm (1058 words)

	Wadi Rum History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Geologists think that this Wadi (the Arabic word for valley) resulted from a great crack in the surface of the earth caused by an enormous upheaval which shattered mammoth pieces of granite and sandstone ridges from the mountains of the Afro-Arabian shield.
		Archeologists are certain that the Wadi Rum area was inhabited in prehistoric periods, mainly the Neolithic period between the 8th and the 6th centuries B.C., and was known as Wadi Iram.
		Wadi Rum was the headquarter of Prince Feisal bin Hussein and T.E. Lawrence during World War I. They were fighting for the Arab Revolt against the Turkish Ottoman empire.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Thread/181989 (518 words)

	Tours - Wadi Rum Mountain Guides
		Today we are circling the base of Jebel Rum between the steep cliffs above and the heaps of fallen scree, first of sandstone and later of granite, below.
		Many wadis are crossed, each offering the possibility of a different ascension of Jebel Rum (more than 10kms long and between 3 and 4 kms wide).
		There are basically two ways to visit Wadi Rum with a camel : the first is with somebody (usually a young boy) leading the camel.
	www.rumguides.com /categories/4-Tours (4398 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Lifting Off From Wadi Rum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Soon after, the teardrop of colored nylon, harnessed to a wicker basket, soars silently upward, propelled by a silent principle of physics and carried on the whims of the winds.
		Other balloons at Wadi Rum had the shapes of castles, rolled-up newspapers and Smurf heads as well as the traditional teardrop: Whimsy—or advertisement—has free rein in that regard, since odd shapes are not a disadvantage in balloon racing.
		Competing were some of the best balloon pilots in the world, who reveled in the rugged beauty of the wadi even while they dealt with the challenges of navigation through its rocky crags and swirling winds.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199306/lifting.off.from.wadi.rum.htm (476 words)

	WADI RUM MOUNTAIN GUIDES
		Wadi Rum is a beautiful semi desert region in the south of Jordan.
		Normally these modes of transport will take you to the Wadi Rum Tourist Centre, where there is a rota for guides.
		Visiting Wadi Rum gives you a wonderful opportunity to meet the local Bedouin who are at your disposal to show you around their traditional lands, whether in 4x4, on foot or with other transport.
	www.bedouinroads.com /wadirum.htm (316 words)

	Wadi Rum climbing information
		Wadi Rum was established as a Nature Reserve (otherwise known as a "protected area") in 1998, and is administered by Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) (
		All climbing activities in Wadi Rum will be coordinated through this office, and all reservations for guides should be sent to them.
		The main season for climbing in Wadi Rum stretches from October to April, so be prepared for cold nights.
	www.jordanjubilee.com /outdoors/climbing.htm (3530 words)

	Wadi Rum home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The best times to enjoy Wadi Rum are early morning and late afternoon, and especially at night when the desert sky will dazzle you.
		Traces of ancient civilizations exist in the many carved inscriptions to be found throughout the Wadi Rum area, from pictographs to Thamudic, Nabatean and Arabic texts.
		The most enduring monuments in Wadi Rum, however, are those carved by Nature--the natural rock bridges, the towering rose-colored sand dunes and challenging peaks.
	www.petramoon.com /wadirum.html (209 words)

	Wadi Rum History
		Archaeologists are certain that the Wadi Rum area was inhabited in
		Fresh water springs made Rum a meeting center for caravans heading towards Syria and Palestine from Arabia.
		Approximately 8.5 kms east of Wadi Rum, at Disi, an Italian excavation uncovered an early Nabataean site, which was occupied before the Nabataeans moved to the rose-red city of Petra.
	www.atlastours.net /jordan/wadirum_history.html (402 words)

	Jordan - Wadi Rum \| Adventure Travel Middle East (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wadi Rum, in the far south of Jordan, is also known as Valley of the Moon.
		I have ridden twice now in Wadi Rum with Equitour Worldwide Riding Holidays Both trips were spectacular and different.
		We arrived at the edge of Wadi Rum and the horses were waiting for us.
	www.wishtotravel.com.cob-web.org:8888 /middleeast/2006/02/jordan_wadi_rum.html (1538 words)

	Wadi Rum and the desert - JORDAN
		In recent history, Wadi Rum has become famous as the starting point for T.E. Lawrence's attack on the coastal town of Aqaba.
		Many scenes from the film were shot in Wadi Rum with local Bedouin families taking part.
		A journey through Wadi Rum will take you away from the hectic bustle of modern living and back to the basics of life.
	www.aquatours.com /jordan/wadirum.htm (329 words)

	Jordan Tourism Guide,wadi Rum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As you near Wadi Rum, look to the left or to the north, and you will see the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
		The pace is slow and tourist activities tend to centre on the rest house.
		With its rosy, yet pallid, complexion, the sky is vast and seems as forbidding as the wilderness beneath it.
	www.palguide.com /jordan/wadi_rum.htm (405 words)

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