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Monday, April 11, 2011

Wadi Rum (camping with Bedouins)

Camping with the beduins is expensive and it is hard
to find cheaper than 25JD for a night with dinner and breakfast. We
walked around town helped a guy fix his truck and he set us up with a
camp for 18JD and then we got a camel ride to Lawrence Spring (30min)
for 7JD. We then hiked around the desert for 4 hrs. The desert seemed
almost identical to Moab, Utah. Our camp was called Mohammed Hussain
Camping and it had bathrooms and a communal tent with a fire place and
then separate tent rooms with thin mattresses and thick blankets. Our
host was really friendly. We saw a couple other tents and they all
look similar. Leaving Wadi Rum we got on the bus that goes to Petra at
8:30am and for 2JD it dropped us at the main highway. Then we
hitchhiker to Aqaba which didn't take long at all and the guy from
Tennessee who picked us up took us all the way to the boarder. Leaving
Jordan you have to pay 8JD and then walk across to Israel.

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