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Wadi Rum, Jordan
The vast Arabian Desert begins at this lonely outpost where the collision of modern life and ancient ways engulfs the Bedouin.
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Wadi Rum, Jordan

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Step off the modern world and experience a changing way of life.

Take a tour to one of the last stops in the Arabian desert, Wadi Rum, that still maintains it's "Old Way Life."

Few places in the desert are capable of supporting the life of even a small community for an extended period of time, and so the bedouin of the Sinai, Arabia and the Negev, would stay on the move. With herds of sheep and goats as well as camels, the Bedouin migrated from one meagerly fertile area to another -- each offering sustenance and shelter for a period of time, while the others were naturally replenished.

For several centuries the many tribes of the Bedouin journeyed by camel from oasis to oasis, following a traditional way of life and maintaining a pastoral culture of exceptional grace, honor and beauty.

Much of that has changed now and beginning in the 1950's and 1960's, many of the Bedouin started to leave the traditional, nomadic life to work and live in cities of the Middle East where food, water, fashionable clothing, education and other luxuries of modern life are easily available.

A film by Manchán Magan, Global Nomad Films. www.manchan.com

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