stay with Bedouin family

Day1 Arrive to Wadi Rum village by noon and meet your Bedouin hosts.

Load equipment into the jeep and head into the desert to a remote location lunch

Learn about the Bedouin tents materials and tools and start building your Bedouin campsite. Go searching for wood to collect

Learn how to prepare an underground oven

Goat slaughtering in the traditional way done by Bedouin

Help in food preparation and the Bedouin Zarb cooking technique

Engoy  walk around over sunset who will give you an introduction about the desert and desert life

Back to the campsite to settle down

Dig out our dinner and enjoy a Bedouin feast

Sit around the camp’s fire and exchange banter with your Bedouin hosts and learn more about their lifestyle – an old Bedouin man might be present as well to give you an insight about the old times….

Day2 Breakfast

Head deeper into the desert to one of the desert mountain looking for water

You’ll be also learning about some of the different herbs that grow in the mountain

Come down from the mountain for lunch and relaxation

Go to visit some Bedouins in the desert…. Learn how to enter the house, greet and sit.. an opportunity to see how the Bedouin lives (but note that you cannot watch or take photos of women)

See the Bedouin coffee making process… learn about the tradition of coffee – its significant, how it is served and how you should have it as a guest

Get some goodies from the Bedouins for tonight’s dinner… yogurt and Bedouin bread..

Go for a round to check on the water reserves

Go check on a goat herd and have a glimpse into the shepherd’s job

See how the Bedouin Mansaf meal (the most traditional Jordanian dish) is cooked

Gather around the Mansaf plate for dinner and learn the tradition of eating Mansaf by hand

Go for a night trek

Day3 A morning desert walk to locate a mountain spring

Learn something about tracing in the desert

Head back to Rum village where your program ends just before noon