Camping with Bedouins in Wadi Rum
admin August 8th, 2007
James Madsen’s 21st birthday present was a trip round the world. Not bad. Some of us had to make do with socks. Anyway, he has been keeping everybody abreast of his adventures in his excellently-named travel blog, Around the world in 120 days. Cool. Let’s go.
In a recent entry he describes camping with Bedouins at Wadi Rum.
In the evening we tucked up against a towering cliff at a Bedouin campsite–vertical stakes supporting a woven blanket roof–it’s flat, not sloped, which is interesting. Dinner was chicken, potatoes, and onions cooked in embers, the whole thing buried under the sand, and served with yogurt, cucumbers, and tomatoes; it was delicious. Chicken fat on my face and hands I fell asleep under a blanket of magnificent stars, a fire burning close by, it crackling occasionally as if keeping time with the shooting stars that would streak the sky between the stars and planets that stretched down to the horizon. If you do visit Jordan, I’d highly recommend Wadi Rum.
