Gloriadventure

          We've just landed on another planet. It's so hot here during the day and so windy and cold at night. There's nothing here, only sand and rocky cliffs. Also the sand is colored in red. It feels like Mars. But people call it Wadi Rum or Wadi al-Qamar, meaning Valley of Sand or Valley of the Moon. First contact with Wadi Rum desert           This place is actually located on our planet Earth, in southern Jordan, near the border to Saudi Arabia. It's a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock with an area of 720 square miles, making it the largest valley in Jordan.           By its official name, Wadi Rum Protected Area has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011. Across the valley you can find many ruins with rock inscriptions and petroglyphs left by several prehistoric civilizations, including the Nabataeans.           We stayed the night at a camp i...

          Jordan, another world… This was my first contact with the Arabic world, and I can honestly say that Jordan was clearly another planet for me. Situated in Western Asia, the semi-arid country of Jordan is the home of only 10 million people. Most of them are Muslims, but there are also Christian minorities who are usually refugees from neighboring countries in conflict (Palestina/Israel, Syria, Iraq).          Religion           In your time here, you will see many men praying wherever and whenever. They always carry a carpet with them, lay it on the ground, kneel and start praying 🙏. It is said that muslims pray 5 times a day because they don’t know how much time they have left to live. They believe in only one God – Allah, which is believed by many to be the same as the Christians God, but with different understandings.           Unlike other Arabic country, w...