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On this journey we were able to enjoy the beauty delivered by extravagant forms that the cordillera mountain range gives that encourages the imagination and reflection for peace of mind.
SAND DUNES (RED AND WHITE)
There аre various places іn Wadi Rum where the white аnd red sands meet, but the mоst commonly visited іs а dune sloping up alongside а jebel - а bit tough tо climb up, great fun tо run down! Іt cаn be difficult ascending those - use small steps.
#Valley of the Moon
#AutumnAndWinter Landscapes in the #CERRADO
#CerradoBiome
five months without rain
#DryLeaves
Criado em 1961, o Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros está localizado no nordeste do Estado de Goiás, entre os Municípios de Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Cavalcante, Teresina de Goiás, Nova Roma e São João d'Aliança. Protegendo uma área de 240.611ha de cerrado de altitude, abriga espécies e formações vegetais únicas, centenas de nascentes e cursos d’água, rochas com mais de um bilhão de anos, além de paisagens de rara beleza, com feições que se alteram ao longo do ano. O Parque também preserva áreas de antigos garimpos, como parte da história local. Foi declarado Patrimônio Natural da Humanidade pela UNESCO, em 2001.
Paisagens do Outono e Inverno no #CERRADO
#BiomaCerrado
Cinco meses sem chuva
#FolhasSecas
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Caminho do #ValeDaLua
São Jorge
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For some scrambling (or scrambling watching).
This is a natural rock bridge, created by many years of water and wind.
The Um Fruth rock bridge is about 15 meters up from the desert floor. Climbing the rock bridge is steep but not difficult. You can climb up within 5 minutes. Especially if you follow the directions of your guide. From the top of the rock bridge you have a spectacular view on the surrounding area. It is one of the most photographed places in Wadi Rum desert.
I climbed to the top... as long as you are not afraid of heights.
About 10km down the canyon of the Río Choqueyapu from the city center, Valle de la Luna is a slightly over-hyped place, though it’s a pleasant break from urban La Paz. It could be easily visited in a morning or combined with another outing such as a hike to Muela del Diablo to fill an entire day. It isn’t a valley at all, but a bizarre, eroded hillside maze of canyons and pinnacles technically known as badlands.
Several species of cactus grow here, including the hallucinogenic choma (San Pedro cactus). Oh, YEP.
Unfortunately, urban growth has caught up to the area, making it less of a viewpoint than it otherwise might be.
Inti Travel offers round-trip guided trips to Valle de la Luna and Chacaltaya (US$ 42), with a pickup from Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora at 8:30am.
Dinner and overnight at Wadi Rum Nights fixed Bedouin Camp.
"Wadi Rum Dream Camp is located inside the protected area of Wadi Rum. It offers traditional Bedouin experience and hospitality. Free WiFi is available throughout the camp. The tents are are furnished with beds, mattresses, blankets, pillows, linen and towels with shared or private bathrooms. The camp serves breakfast buffet and traditional meals for dinner. Wadi Rum Dream Camp provides desert tours including camel riding, horseback riding and jeep tours. Guests can also enjoy yoga classes and body massage at the camp. After a busy day, guests can sit around the fire pit and listen to traditional Bedouin stories and music. The nearest airport is King Hussein International Airport, 40 km from Wadi Rum Dream Camp. Free parking is available."
But as soon as we passed onto the sand, all worry was forgotten. As Lawrence wrote, "Our little caravan fell quiet, afraid and ashamed to flaunt its smallness in the presence of the stupendous hills." Well said, old chap.
The area is centered on the main valley of Wadi Rum. The highest elevation in Jordan is Jabal Umm ad Dami at 1,840 m (6,040 ft) high (SRTM data states 1854 m), located 30 kilometres south of Wadi Rum village. It was first located by Difallah Ateeg, a Zalabia Bedouin from Rum. On a clear day, it is possible to see the Red Sea and the Saudi border from the top.
Jabal Ram or Jebel Rum (1,734 metres (5,689 ft) above sea level) is the second highest peak in Jordan and the highest peak in the central Rum, rising directly above Rum valley, opposite Jebel um Ishrin, which is possibly one metre lower.
Khaz'ali Canyon in Wadi Rum is the site of petroglyphs etched into the cave walls depicting humans and antelopes dating back to the Thamudic times. The village of Wadi Rum itself consists of several hundred Bedouin inhabitants with their goat-hair tents and concrete houses and also their four-wheel vehicles, one school for boys and one for girls, a few shops, and the headquarters of the Desert Patrol.
Recently, Geoff Lawton has achieved success in establishing a permaculture ecosystem in Wadi Rum.
About 10km down the canyon of the Río Choqueyapu from the city center, Valle de la Luna is a slightly over-hyped place, though it’s a pleasant break from urban La Paz. It could be easily visited in a morning or combined with another outing such as a hike to Muela del Diablo to fill an entire day. It isn’t a valley at all, but a bizarre, eroded hillside maze of canyons and pinnacles technically known as badlands.
Several species of cactus grow here, including the hallucinogenic choma (San Pedro cactus). Oh, YEP.
Unfortunately, urban growth has caught up to the area, making it less of a viewpoint than it otherwise might be.
Inti Travel offers round-trip guided trips to Valle de la Luna and Chacaltaya (US$ 42), with a pickup from Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora at 8:30am.
Don't tell Elon Musk, but you don't have to fire off into space to visit Mars. Just get on a plane — or a bus — to the Middle Eastern country of Jordan.
Jordan is a small, dry, mostly landlocked country that neighbors Israel to the east. Within its rugged terrain is Wadi Rum, a desert valley known for its dramatic sandstone and granite rock faces and the reddish hue of its sand.
The landscape is so otherworldly that countless filmmakers have used the desert as a location for films taking place on distant planets.
Most recently, the desert served as the backdrop for Mars in the Matt Damon-starring space-survival film "The Martian."
But "The Martian" is far from the only film to use the desert. Wadi Rum played the part of Mars in the 2000 film "Red Planet" and the
2013 film "The Last Days on Mars." It played the part of the alien world in the 2012 horror film "Prometheus" and the planet of Jedha in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
On a recent trip to Jordan, I decided to take a road trip through Wadi Rum. After barreling through the desert in jeeps, sprinting down sand dunes. I think I can say I've officially visited another planet.
Wadi Rum, translating either as "Valley of (light, airborne) sand" or the "Roman Valley"—the latter due to the presence of Roman ruins in the area, known also as the Valley of the Moon, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
"There is no loneliness sadder than the man without friends. The lack of friends makes the world seem like a desert."
Francis Bacon
But when we arrived at the Bedouin camp in Wadi Rum after visiting Petra, I knew I was wrong. While Wadi Rum is mostly uninhabitable, Bedouins have lived in different parts of the desert for centuries. Today, many run luxury campsites for tourists and Jordanians.
The Devil's Tooth (Muella del Diablo) is in the middle. It is the last mountain.
Take some time off from the hustle and bustle of the city and visit Muela del Diablo, a distinct rock formation formed by an extinct volcano plug. Translated as the ‘Devil’s Molar’ in English, the formation was named due to its peculiar shape when viewed from certain vantage points. You can walk to the attraction in no more than half a day, regardless of your trekking experience.
Valle de la Luna is a part of the Reserva Nacional los Flamencos and was declared a Nature Sanctuary in 1982 for its natural environment and strange lunar landscape, from which its name is derived.
The Atacama desert is also considered one of the driest places on earth, as some areas have not received a single drop of rain in hundreds of years, but last week. A prototype for a Mars rover was tested there by scientists because of the valley's dry and forbidding terrains.
Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) is situated about 10 kilometers from downtown La Paz, in the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia. It consists of an area where erosion has worn away the majority of a mountain, composed primarily of clay rather than rock, leaving tall spires. It is similar to another zone of La Paz that is known as El Valle de las Animas (The Valley of the Souls). It is an important site of the famous holiday, Dias de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
Because the mineral content of the mountains varies greatly between individual mountains, the sides of the mountains are different colors, creating striking optical illusions. A majority of them are a clear beige or light brown color, but some are almost red, with sections of dark violet.
The deeply crevassed ‘Mother of Twenty’, a 20-domed mountain forming the east flank of Wadi Rum, is connected to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom formation. The mountain acquired its name, according to local legend, after a woman killed 19 suitors; she was outwitted by the 20th, so she married him. The whole range turns a magnificent white-capped auburn during sunset.
About 10km down the canyon of the Río Choqueyapu from the city center, Valle de la Luna is a slightly over-hyped place, though it’s a pleasant break from urban La Paz. It could be easily visited in a morning or combined with another outing such as a hike to Muela del Diablo to fill an entire day. It isn’t a valley at all, but a bizarre, eroded hillside maze of canyons and pinnacles technically known as badlands.
Several species of cactus grow here, including the hallucinogenic choma (San Pedro cactus). Oh, YEP.
Unfortunately, urban growth has caught up to the area, making it less of a viewpoint than it otherwise might be.
Inti Travel offers round-trip guided trips to Valle de la Luna and Chacaltaya (US$ 42), with a pickup from Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora at 8:30am.
Free tea.
I want beer.
There is always tea available in tea pots on the fire in the seating area outside.
Emmanuel, the Argentine, our tour guide on two tours is great, fun, knowledgeable, good tips and an extremely cool human being. He is not afraid to speak the things he thinks.
We had fun on both tours.
He guided us in the Geysers of Tatio and in the Valley of the Moon.
Please, always tip your guide.
But as soon as we passed onto the sand, all worry was forgotten.
As Lawrence wrote, "Our little caravan fell quiet, afraid and ashamed to flaunt its smallness in the presence of the stupendous hills."
Well said, old chap.
It is a pity!
They are leaving all these horrendous buildings next to such natural beauty of a hundred million year-old, once was the bottom of a lake. It will never be a World Heritage Site (UNESCO).
A disregard of the Bolivian Tourism Secretary.
The wide variety of flora:
Flowering Anabasis articulate (Jointed Anabis) in Wadi RumIn the protected area you can find over 160 species of plants that belong to almost 50 different plant families. Most of them are specially adapted plants that can survive in our harsh desert climate.
About 7 of them are useful as a source of wood;
Over 30 species we us for medicinal purposes;
Some 15 we avoid as they are known to be poisonous;
Around 50 are a source of food for different species of animals including our lifestock;
6 plants are endemic;
Canyon.
The dramatic combination of massive rocks and canyons, sandstones over basalt and granite weathered into weird shapes and colours surrounded by desert sands, rivals Petra in magnificence.
The High Cliffs on Mars:
This red desert is one of the most different deserts I've ever been to! The cool thing is that when I watch science fiction film and the film needs the scenery of the planet Mars, this is where it is filmed. Every movie scene is a personal joy.
I have never been on another planet yet, but when I was there, that desert didn't really look like a terraqueous desert.
I would go back to that desert and stay for a week.
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The area has been used as a background setting in a number of films. Filmmakers are particularly drawn to it for science fiction films set on Mars.
The Location Managers Guild recognized the Jordanian Royal Film Commission with its LMGI Award for Outstanding Film Commission in 2017 for its work on Rogue One, which filmed at Wadi Rum. The RFC was previously nominated for its work with The Martian.
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean filmed much of this 1962 film on location in Wadi Rum.
Red Planet – Wadi Rum was used as the surface of Mars in this 2000 film.
Passion in the Desert – The area was also used for scenes in this 1998 film.
The Face – BBC Film, Rock climbing in Rum, featuring Wadi Rum pioneers Tony Howard and Di Taylor.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – represented as being in Egypt.
The Frankincense Trail – scenes from train, and aerial filming too.
Prometheus – scenes for the Alien Planet.
Krrish 3 – The Bollywood song Dil Tu Hi Bataa was partly shot on locations in Wadi Rum.
May in the Summer – a film by Cherien Dabis presented at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Long shots of Wadi Rum set the mood for the film, it's a place where the main character finds peace away from the world and within herself.
The Last Days on Mars – filmed for exterior shots representing the surface of the titular planet for this 2013 film.
The Martian – filming for the Ridley Scott film began in March 2015, for shots that stood in for the surface of Mars. Matt Damon on Wadi Rum, "I was in awe of that place. It was really, really special. One of the most spectacular and beautiful places I have ever seen, and like nothing I’ve ever seen anywhere else on Earth."
Me in the same scene of the film:
Theeb – Filmed mostly in Wadi Rum, as well as Wadi Araba.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, used for scenes set on Jedha.
Recording of the album Deserto de Revelação of the Brazilian ministry of praise Diante do Trono in 2017.
Aladdin, 2019 live action remake of the 1992 Disney animated film of the same name.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, used for the desert planet Pasaana.
Dune (2020), used as a location for the desert planet Arrakis.[26] Timothée Chalamet on Wadi Rum, "That part of the Wadi Rum is so awe-inspiring, you might as well be getting chased by that cliff in the background."
Aadujeevitham – The desert scenes of the 2020 Malayalam film were mostly shot on locations in Wadi Rum.
Together with the so-called Valle de la Muerte, this place is unique within the environment surrounding the Orbate mountain range at 2,500 meters above sea level, it is a relative-sized depression of 440 km² of the so-called Cordillera de la Sal in the Salar de Atacama surrounded by crests of 500 m elevation. Its extension includes from the west by the mountain range of Domeyko, by the east by Toconao and Peine by the south.
The real-life Lawrence spent considerable time in Jordan, particularly in Wadi Rum. He called it "vast, echoing, and God-like." I have to agree.
There is little left of this building, erected on the Nabataean ruins of a water cistern. Nonetheless, legend has it that Lawrence stayed here during the Arab Revolt and that makes it a must on the regular 4WD circuits of the area. Near the building is a Nabataean inscription that mentions the area’s ancient name of Iram. The remote location and uninterrupted view of the red sand dunes are the main attractions.
This palce Lawrence House is actually an old Nabataean building which would have been some kind of base for them along the camel caravan route, the building isn't impressive but if look at the marks on the stones you will see they are all handmade and they are joined without concrete.