Wadi Rum is a desert area in Southern Jordan. If you’ve ever been to Death Valley in the US you will feel similarities. The sand is dotted with colorful rock formations, canyons and water holes which have been known to man for at least 4000 years.
Wadi Rum is also known as the Valley of the Moon for obvious reasons. Prince Faisal Bin Hussein and T E Lawrence maintained a headquarters in Wadi Rum during World War I during the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans and is the site of the filming of the classic movie Lawrence of Arabia.
We toured the desert in a 4-wheel drive jeep (the only way to get around) driven by a local guide. Along the way we took on a backpacking hiker who has been hop-scotching around the world for the last several years. He had decided the deep sand was too tiring to hike across and so we offered him a ride.
If you’re interested check out a short slide show of images from Wadi Rum on my Web site at: http://www.andrewmcdonoughphotography.com/ , click on the “RUSSIA” link and download and view the file called wadi_rum.exe
As I mentioned in a previous post I have a new way to view slide shows regardless of type of computer or operating system (i.e., the show will play on PCs, Macs, with Windows, Apple and Linux operating systems, etc.). The slide show appears at the bottom of the RUSSIA download page or may be viewed simply by clicking on this link: http://vimeo.com/38567011 This will bring directly to http://vimeo.com/ Mouse-over the video player and click the run arrow to start the show. The music is from the original sound track of Lawrence of Arabia.
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