---
type: Place
title: Wadi Rum
description: Jordan's desert valley, which Harry films as Mars — bubble pods rather than tents, jeep tours and meals included, and nights cold enough that he warns you twice.
tags: [jordan, wadi-rum, desert, glamping, jeep-tour, middle-east]
coordinates: {lat: 29.5175, lng: 35.3836}
timestamp: 2026-08-07T16:20:00Z
---

# Wadi Rum

The desert valley in southern [Jordan](/countries/jordan.md) 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](/places/aqaba.md), 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](/places/amman.md) 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 🇯🇴](/videos/0hvHNO80GYM.md) —
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvHNO80GYM