Reason for Designation: Jordan’s red ... of our human origins. Wadi Rum is about a four-hour drive south of Amman on the Desert Highway, and one hour north of Aqaba. Buses travel from Amman ...

But in 1965 it became part of Jordan, following a border agreement whereby the latter gained 18km to the south, and with it, a stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Aqaba and the desert hamlet of ...

My Bedouin guide Abdallah led the way up and into the crags of Jebel Umm Ishrin (1,753m), the sheer, eastern wall of Jordan's most ... role in putting Wadi Rum on the tourism map.

Farrayeh told The Jordan Times. There have been two previous official attempts to revive the existing 65-kilometer-long railway linking Aqaba and Wadi Rum, around 330km south of Amman, but they failed ...