Disi Village, Wadi Rum, Jordan
Tareef took us south today, almost all the way to the edge of the kingdom (where we’ll be tomorrow). On the agenda: desert cycling.
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| From Good Friday in Wadi Rum, Then Aqaba |
As Mel pointed out, striking up the chorus of Hakuna Matata, the surfaces we rode on looked very much like cartoon landscapes.
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| From Good Friday in Wadi Rum, Then Aqaba |
Wadi Rum’s reputation is for desert, and we saw plenty of that – mountains, sand dunes, windswept surfaces dotted with scrawny brush.
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| From Good Friday in Wadi Rum, Then Aqaba |
It’s easy to forget that Wadi Rum sits on the great Disi Reservoir. A new project is installing the infrastructure to pipe some of that water north to Amman, Zarqa and Irbid, but in the meantime it’s a rich source of water for local agriculture.
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| From Good Friday in Wadi Rum, Then Aqaba |
Altogether it’s a place of contradiction, where desert meets agriculture, flats meet sheer rock faces, and the nomadic meets the settled meets the tourists.
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| From Good Friday in Wadi Rum, Then Aqaba |
And surprisingly nice cycling with an exceptional group of people from 4 continents. Just watch out for the sand traps!
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