From Aqaba to Wadi Rum to Taybet

We had a 9:30 start for our tour of Aqaba. Then our driver headed to the emergency room of the local hospital- he had kidney stones!
We finally got on the road again. to Wadi Rum.

It's also known as ‘The Valley of the Moon’, this is the place where Prince Faisal Bin Hussein and T.E. Lawrence based their headquarters during the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans in World War 1. (Most of the movie, Lawrence of Arabia was filmed here).

Today, the Bedouins live there. The government builds them houses, then they pitch their tents and move in with their camels, goats and chickens.
We walked through the granite and sandstone hills, saw Laurence’s well.

We had lunch at the Resthouse, wondering if PeptoBismo was to follow.
Then we headed to Taybet and the Taybet Zaman Hotel, recreation of a late 19th century rural Jordanian village.
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