You might like main course but we prefer deserts

We drive today to the Wadi Rum, sight of exploits by LOA(Lawrence of Jordan).
This stark, relentless landscape baked by the merciless rays of the unforgiving great orb in the firmament and inhabited by the most resilient and hardiest of our creator's creations will be our domicile for the next 18 to 24 hours.
We are driven around in the back of jeeps for the next 3 hours and view the sights that only this Wadi can provide.








We arrive at our traditional bedouin camp with fractured coccyxs and enough sand in our shoes to build substantial sand castles.
 We are astounded that all they have to serve us here is 0% beer-the horror! Fortunately I have my private stash of single malts.



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