Jordan was a land tour that we made from Israel by taking a bus from Tel Aviv (approximately 4 hours) to Elat and crossing over to Jordan by foot through the relatively new border opening (Elat - Aqaba) as agreed to by Jordan and Israel. This is one of the two crossings bewtween Israel and Jordan reached by a painful process described in some limited detail by Queen Noor, wife of the deceased King Hussein of Jordan in her book Leap of Faith. Except for the heat, the border crossing was simple, although the Israeli customs people did give Dan on Dakare a hard time when they found a business card that Dan was given by the marina the rally stayed at in Syria. Needless to say, they were n ot pleased to see the business card and asked a million and one (slight exaggeration) questions. Finally, after the head customs person was brought into the situation, we were able to pass with a shrug of her shoulders - interpretation left to reader.) During our stay in Jordan we went to 3 specific places: Aqaba, Petra (made famous in the movie Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade) and Wadi Rum where we camped out at a Bedouin Camp site (Another location made famous and used in the movie Lawrence of Arabia.)

Wadi Rum

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Wadi Rum Sunset

Roughing it Bedouin style in Wadi Rum, Compliments of Jim on Kelearin

Some questionable French Bedouins

In search of some rocks to change a flat tire, Wadi Rum - 106F in the shade!

Desert scene at sunset, Wadi Rum

Burro in Wadi Rum

Natural Bridge, Wadi Rum

Dan, Manny and Jim "butting" down the Natural Bridge

Dan and Richard in the shade. Notice the stone drippings on the limestone in the background attesting to the rain in the desert.

Another Wadi Rum tent site

A desert well used to capture runoff rain water. This well was used by the camel trade caravans. The cement covering structure is new. The water surface was about 60-70 feet down, attesting to the lack of rain.

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