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Wadi Rum is a Bedouin settlement in
a valley with giant 2,000-foot
desert cliffs, ancient valleys and
towering weathered sandstone
mountains that rise out of the white
and pink colored sands. Stunning in
its natural beauty, Wadi Rum,
epitomizes the romance of the
desert. Tucked away, remote and
splendid in both landscape and
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Not being a sand dune style of
desert, Wadi Rum has intriguing
hills and rock formations known
as"jebels" that reach a height of
about 1,700 metres. Thousands of
years ago, this area was part of the
silk and spice route between China
and Arabia. Here is an unspoiled
natural beauty forged by millions of
years of geological formation,
erosion and evolution. The word "Wadi"
means valley, and Rum a settlement,
the home of several semi-nomadic
Bedouin tribes of about 20 Bedouin
families that have inhabited the
area for generations.
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