Wadi Rum

The desert valley in southern Jordan that Harry films throughout as another planet — his running line is that they are on Mars.

He rates it as high as anywhere he has been: one of his favourite places in Jordan, he says, if not in the world.

The bundle’s coverage of Wadi Rum is thin, and honestly so: it appears at the start of a video that is mostly about Aqaba, by which point he and his companions have already been there half a day. What is below is what that morning records.

Staying there

• Pods rather than tents — sealed, transparent-fronted rooms in the desert, which he is careful to call glamping and not camping.
• The price includes a jeep tour, dinner and breakfast, which he flags as good value for what arrives with it. He gives a nightly figure on camera but the subtitles lose the number; what is recoverable is that three of them shared one pod and the split made it comfortable.
• The trade-off he names: proper camping has an advantage the pods don’t — you can actually see the stars.
• Breakfast was pastries, eggs and coffee.

What to bring

It gets very cold in the desert, and he says so as a direct warning: bring a coat. It is the second time in the cluster that the temperature has caught them out — they had already bought jackets in Amman for exactly this.

Harry’s tips

• Take the package. The jeep tour and both meals coming with the room is most of what makes it worth the price.
• Share the pod. Three of them in one is what made it affordable.
• Bring a coat, and expect a real drop after dark.

Source videos

• $200 Luxury Jordan Resort 🇯🇴 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvHNO80GYM