in the middle east

On the morning our Blackhawk friends stepped onto a plane back to US, Jessica and I boarded a bus down to the southernmost coastal town of Israel, Eilat. From there we crossed the border into Jordan, and began our two week adventure. We stayed that night outside of a Jordanian coastal town named Aqaba at an interesting place called "The Bedouin Village". We met some random people there and ended up driving into town with them to buy a cake to celebrate someone's birthday. Random indeed. The next morning we woke up and went to our first destination in Jordan, the Wadi Rum Nature Reserve. It is located in South Jordan and runs up against the northern border of Saudi Arabia. It is a gigantic desert, with large mountains of granite and sandstone that burst up from the sandy floor hundreds and even thousands of feet tall. We did an overnight Jeep tour with a guide from the area, and saw breathtaking desert beauty. It was the most silent place I'd ever been in my life, only the sound of the wind as you look over miles of trackless desert. We got to see and do a number of cool things in the desert, a it was a great way to start our Jordan-Egypt adventure, so take a look. Click Here.