Night in the desert, morning in Red sea

On the weekend we had a trip to wadi rum – a valley in the desert in southern Jordan.
After starting our trip 3 hours later from the planed time within few hours drive from Amman an amazing scenery road started. We were curving around the rocks in the desert. Each of the rocks looking like sculptures having their own face and looks:



Also have to acknowledge the infrastructure fact again. Even in the middle of desert and rocks the roads in this country are perfect. There is always a two way highway with 4 lines and excellent roads.
By the evening we arrived to our camp:


We spent one night living with Bedouins and hawing a view like that:




The Bedouins cooked us a dinner under the sand. The sunlight is so strong that it heats up the ground to so high temperature that you can dig your food under the sand and it will be cooked by the heath there. So we ate under the ground cooked, rice, vegetables and chicken. And yes, I did make an excuse and ate the chicken cause it was traditional and special and it would have been more rude to not try the costumes here to stick with my principles.
The nature gave us a special treat as well. After midnight, we started seeing lightning in the sky and after few hours the thunder followed, and then the rain for the rest of the night. So now I can say that I have seen rain in the desert and even slept in the rain in desert (yes the camps and tents there are obviously not built for rain).
In the morning we went back to the village and had a camel ride.

And then drove 30 minutes and reached Aqaba and the red sea. Aqaba was amazing – green, warm and the most blue water I have ever seen. It is a government initiative to make the city green and environment sustainable. Also Aqaba is a tax free zone. So everything there is 20% cheaper than anywhere else. And thirdly, you can see Israel, Egypt and Saudi-Arabia from the beach!



We visited the public beach, cause that’s for free. But it wasn’t that clean and we were the only females swimming, rest of them were covered and just looking at the sea. But the water was amazing. Clear as a drinking water. And already 5 meters from the beach, you can see the corals and colorful fish. This time we didn’t go diving yet, but next time for sure!
So what a weekend – night in the desert, camel ride in the morning, swimming with corals in the red sea in the afternoon!