On the road with nomads

Jordan photo gallery

4. April 2019Categories: All | Jordan | Photo galleries

Abu Yousef leads his goats to a new feeding place.

The first day's leg is already a tough one: we traipse through the sand for six hours. Our caravan is moving along the historic trade route that connected Jerusalem to Mecca for over a thousand years.

On foot and by camel on the Arab Merchant Route that once connected Jerusalem and Mecca (Wadi Rum, Jordan).

Epic, wide, inconceivable: Wadi Rum's landscape.

During a break Michelle is entertaining Coco, a four week old camel baby.

If this patina-overlaid kettle could tell stories...

In the break the Bedouins Ataallah and Nayef quench their thirst with thyme-soaked tea.

Simply enraptured by the landscape of the Wadi Rum.

Setting up a Bedouin tent is not as easy as it seems.

Bedouin breakfast: goat cheese, olive oil, tahini, thyme, date syrup and flat bread.

Abu Yousef leads his goats to a new feeding place.

It takes some tricky climbing to get to the Burdah rock arch.

Burdah rock arch: I put my non-existent freedom from vertigo to the test.

Alexis marvels at the grandiose rock formations and the unbelievably wide landscape of Wadi Rum.

Abu Yousef and Mohammed stow away the posts of their Bedouin tent.

Abu Yousef's four-year-old daughter Yaqeen makes our hearts boil over.

At the summit flag of Jordan's highest mountain - Um Al Dami.

View from the highest peak of Jordan - Um Al Dami - to Saudi Arabia.

Below the Burdah rock arch.

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