Beautiful desert

We took off this morning and drove a couple more hours south to Wadi Rum. This is a red sand desert - most famously used in any movies that need to look like Mars or another planet. The Martian, Star Wars: Rogue One, Dune, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, live action Aladdin, Prometheus, Lawrence of Arabia, Moon knight, Transformers … the list could go one.

We’re staying in an actual modern day Bedouin camp. We have our own tent with a gorgeous Mountain View that has its own bathroom, and air conditioning! It does great in the evening/night but couldn’t keep up with the heat in the afternoon very well. Pretty sweltering.

We took another camel ride out to see the sunset with another seven people or so. Kind of rode in a herd which was fun. Once back to camp all sat down for a Bedouin dinner together.

After dinner we loaded into truck beds that had seats built in and rode into the desert for our star gazing tour!! Drove about 20 min or so deeper into the desert where it was very dark. The Bedouins laid out some carpets, built us a fire, and made some tea right there. Then we sat back and enjoyed the view for a couple hours.

It was so peaceful just laying there in the sand looking up at the sky with nothing but your thoughts - with no light pollution we could see so many stars and the Milky Way! And it was perfectly quiet - zero sounds except the soft wind. I’ve camped a lot - and there’s always sound of some kind. Birds chirping, crickets, campers next door. But here it is perfectly silent. Crazy peaceful.Read more