4 October 2008, 11:12 pm
WADI RUM, Jordan . The sun, a blazing orange ball, beat down mercilessly as my driver and I bounced over sand dunes in our creaky Land Rover. The landscape, almost lunar in its composition of dunes, fissures and jagged rock . indeed, it is known to Bedouins who live here as the Valley of the Moon . has a stark, desolate beauty. The area is best known for being the place where T.E. Lawrence, ...... read more