Wadi Rum's otherworldly landscape is where Star Wars movies and The Martian were filmed. In late winter, plants emerge in this desert — but some are toxic to camels, so their herders must protect them ...

Jordan is a place where history feels close enough to touch—etched into rose-red stone, carried on desert winds, and shared across kitchen tables. This nine-day journey from Exodus Adventure Travels, ...

Director Ridley Scott's highly anticipated "The Martian" is in theaters Friday. While much of the film will take place on Mars, it's the Middle Eastern desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan, which serves as the ...

Deep in the remote deserts of southern Jordan, not far from the border with Saudi Arabia, lies Wadi Rum one of the world’s most stunning natural wonders. Nicknamed the Grand Canyon of the Middle East, ...

The sight of an open expanse stretching into infinity is a tonic for clearing cluttered minds. Promising silence, solitude and stark minimalist beauty, our world’s driest regions lure bold explorers ...

The royals ride in the back of a pickup truck in the desert. Much of their visit was intended to highlight tourism experiences available in the Wadi Rum region. The mother-daughter royal duo arrived ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Vast, echoing and God-like.” That is how ...

The clear desert sky filled with twinkling stars above Jordan's Wadi Rum has turned into sand lashes, lit up brightly by the headlights of the parked jeeps. Hamad, one of our hosts, was right after ...

French mountain guide Arnaud Petit and Jonathan Crison have led a young FFME expedition to Jordan where they established a new route up Jebel Rum in the Wadi Rum massif. Voie du Coeur (430m, 7c+ max, ...

Delicately excavated from the natural grounds of Jordan’s Wadi Rum, Jordanian architect Rasem Kamal transformed the phrase of “form follows function” into “subtraction follows function”, emphasizing ...