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Wadi Rum with children
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"Private" or Individual tours

As many days as you like, hiking and scrambling!
"Wadi Rum Adventure"

One day trips
"A Day with the Bedouin"
Classic jeep tour
One day camel trek
"Small Three Bridges"
One day jeep/hike
One day (or more) hiking trips
"Jeep to Burdah Arch"
One day jeep and scramble
The highest mountain in Jordan
Um Adaami

Two day trips
Two day jeep tour
"The Khasch Route":
Two day jeep/hike
"Open desert trip":
Two days hiking
Two day jeep/camel
Two day camel trek
"Three Bridges trip":
Two day scrambling
"Um Adaami to Aqaba":
One and a half days scrambling

Three or more days
3 day jeep/hike/camel
3 days camel trek
5 day camel trek
10 days camel trek
Wadi Rum Adventure
Hiking trips
 5 Day hiking and scrambling

Unusual programmes
Alone in the desert
Supper in the desert

Extra excursions or "add-ons"
Short camel ride

Short self guided hike to Wadi
Shelaala ("Lawrence's Spring")

Climbing
THESE PROGRAMMES ARE HARD GOING AND ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR NOVICES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO ABSEIL AND TO USE ROPES
Jebel Burdah
Jebel Khazali
Jebel Rum

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Conditions of tours & some Frequently Asked Questions
(please read also the General Information page)

Photo by Tom Neys

We give these conditions in almost every email that we send in answer to a preliminary enquiry. see below for some FAQs

The trips start and end officially at the Visitors' Centre, where you pay your entrance fee and collect any brochurds and maps that you wish, but since this is about 6 kms from the village of Wadi Rum, we usually prefer to end all tours at the Resthouse in the village, which is well known to taxi drivers and where buses will usually collect you. There is a car park immediately beside the Resthouse and any cars left there are in perfect security.  Obviously, if you wish to return to the Visitors Centre we drive you there.

The price includes all meals, jeep transfers when stated  and equipment for sleeping in the desert. I do not ask for deposits (too complicated!) and am not set up to take credit cards, but would ask for payment in Jordanian dinars when you are here.  I am sorry, but there are no banks or ATM machines in Wadi Rum - this is not my fault!! The price does not include the entrance fee to Wadi Rum which is 2JD. The water in Wadi Rum comes from the aquifer in Dissieh and is very pure. We supply this water in quantity, but not mineral water.  

We usually reckon to start off at about 9.30am and we ask you to be here by 9/9.15am to be able to check into the Visitors' Centre first. If you arrive on the early bus from Petra, if you wish you can take a short hike to the spring at Wadi Shelaali where Lawrence of Arabia bathed when he was here. We could put you down at the beginning of the path that leads up to it, and meet you at the Rest House at 9.30am. Otherwise you can sit at the Resthouse, perhaps have breakfast or stroll around nearby.  We do expect you to be here at this time, or we reserve the right to charge you the Private Tour surcharge..

Nights are usually spent in our camp, about 5kms from Rum Village, which is based around several large Bedouin tents.  This is my own private camp which is not usually used by people who are not visiting Wadi Rum with me and my team. There are sit down toilets and a shower for those who are staying several days. You can sleep inside the tent, just outside it alongside the fire, or a bit further off on the dune "under the stars", just as you wish. There are plenty of corners to be private. We do not normally supply small tents. See also the General Information page. 

End of the tour : after a night in the desert, we bring you back to the village at around 8am the next day, or earlier on your request. Trips lasting two or more days will usually end at about 4pm on the last day. Day trips will also end at 4pm.

Times : we usually start out at around 9.30am and reckon to finish the tour about 4pm or before sunset.  At around this time, we take you either to the camp for the night, or back to the village, depending on the tour you are doing.

Some Frequently Asked Questions

What is the camp like?

Please see the General Information page

What can I do with my luggage?

This can always be brought out to the camp for you, but many people prefer to sort out what they will need into a smaller bag or bags and leave the main luggage in my office where it will be perfectly safe. If you choose this solution, please do the sorting out before you arrive here!

Can I pay with a credit card? Are there ATMs or a bank in Wadi Rum

Sorry, but the answer is No to all of this. Only registered companies can take credit cards in Jordan which I am not! I have to ask for payment in cash. And there is no bank and no ATM here - a pity!

Do you have guides speaking different languages?

All of my team speak fluent English but none of the guides currently working in Wadi Rum speaks more than a few words of any other language. French, German, Italian, Spanish or other speakers have to manage as best they can.

Can we start off by an overnight and do the tour the next day?

Yes, certainly. The price would be the same as an ordinary tour and overnight, but you should be here by 6pm (18.00) at the very latest, or it will be too late to have supper in the desert.

I want to arrive about midday and do the tour over two days. That's just 24 hours, right, so it would be charged the same price.

Sorry, but no. The guides are paid by the DAY and not by the hour. They would therefore be expecting two days pay. This is fair enough, since they are blocked for the day in this case, and cannot accept another contract. We don't charge you the full two days, this comes from our pocket, but we do charge you extra. Please try to arrive at the usual time.

What happens if for some reason I want to abandon the tour in the middle?

As explained above, the full day will usually be charged, but not any subsequent days. This does depend on the reason for the abandonment.

We don't want to share our tour with other people!

Usually this is possible with a surcharge. Please see the Private Tour page. However, the supply of good guides is not unlimited, and during the high season to send out too many private tours means that a lot of  people could not get a tour at all. At these times, we would say, No sorry!

I am travelling alone....

Please see the page for Solo Travellers. We will do what we can to help you, but this can be a problem!

I don't think that  I can be there by 9.15am

In that case, unless there is a very good reason for your being late, we reserve the right to charge the Private Tour price, usually 10JD/person. We are sympathetic, but other people might be waiting for you to start their tour.

What will the weather be like at any time up to six months ahead?

We don't know! We can give the probabilities, in the winter it will probably be cold, and in the summer it will probably be hot, but further than that we cannot help. Ask yourself what the weather will be like in your home town at that time, and you will see the problem! You can check the Jordan Met Office site as given above.

What time is sunset/sunrise?

Here we refer you to a website at Time and Date dot com! You can programme the year and the month that interests you.

I have a problem, an issue or a complaint...

Please make it, but to ME! I am almost always in the camp for the evening meal, except when I have a group somewhere in the desert, and even then I try very hard to pass in the camp for half an hour at least. If you do not see me, then your guide will call me - insist on this if necessary, or ask somebody else to call me.  If I cannot come immediately, if I am out of mobile connection, I will still come to find you as soon as possible. Please note that NOBODY in the team is authorised to change a programme or a price without my explicit instructions.

It is very important to me that my clients leave Wadi Rum happy with their visit. It is only fair to give me the chance to put things right if they have gone wrong!

I want to dive in Aqaba and come to Wadi Rum in the evening

You should tell the Divemaster of your plans. Wadi Rum is at 1000m above sea level, so you will need to stick to shallow diving that day

Contact information

Our office phone number is +962.795.899.723 (or 0795.899.723 from inside Jordan). This number is available 24/24 hours and should always be answered by somebody speaking English. Further (useful!) information about contacting us is given on the page Contact information

You can reach us by email at info@bedouinroads.com or by fax at +962.3.203.2651.