Duration: 8 days
Best season: March–May & October–November
Group size: 6–10 participants
Type: Immersive cultural experience
Price: from €1,890 per person (includes all accommodation, local guides, meals, desert logistics & transport)
You don’t read Bedouin history — you hear it. Around fires, under stars, from people who carry their ancestry in poems, songs, and stories. This 8-day journey brings you into the heart of nomadic knowledge in southern Jordan, from Wadi Rum’s vast silence to the carved grandeur of Petra.
You’ll live alongside Bedouin hosts, share meals, listen to oral histories, and take part in what remains of an ancient way of knowing — one not written, but spoken, remembered, and sung. Some things get lost in translation. Others... get found there.
What’s Included
3 nights in Bedouin-style desert camp (with basic comforts but real hospitality)
2 nights in Petra-area eco-lodge, 2 nights in Amman (small, family-run hotels)
Daily guided conversations with elders, storytellers, and desert guides
Talk: “Poetry as Memory” — with Bedouin poets & translators
Workshop on Nabataean stone inscriptions and oral lineage
Stargazing night + fire circle storytelling in Wadi Rum
All meals included — traditional fare cooked fresh: zarb, flatbreads, tea with sage & fire smoke
Internal transport, entrance fees, camel logistics (yes, camel logistics are a thing)
Highlights
🐪 Walk and ride through Wadi Rum with a local desert guide who grew up nomadic
🔥 Sit in a circle under the stars as elders share epic poems — no script, just memory
🗿 Hike lesser-known Petra trails and learn how tribes mapped stories onto the landscape
🧾 Learn how oral genealogy works, and why Bedouins still know 7+ generations back
🫖 Help make sweet mint tea the old way — in the sand, over ember coals
Accommodation & Food
Forget hotels — you’ll sleep under canvas in the desert, where silence has sound. Tents have beds and blankets (not luxury, but not hardship). Food is cooked slow, served communally, and you’ll eat with your hands more than once. In Petra and Amman, it’s simple but cozy. Lots of tea. Dates. Flatbread you saw being made 10 minutes ago. Hospitality here isn’t performative — it’s cultural law.
Who is this for?
Listeners. Slow travelers. Poets (or people who forgot they once were).
Anthropologists, oral historians, language nerds
Anyone craving something less curated, more… true
Those okay with a bit of sand in their shoes and stories they’ll never fully understand
A Note Before You Book
This isn’t a “tour.” It’s time. Shared. The desert doesn’t rush, and neither should you. Sometimes a plan changes because a relative arrives or a storm rolls in — and that’s the experience. The magic is in sitting down, waiting, and hearing what’s spoken when nothing’s forced.
There may be no Wi-Fi, but the connection’s solid.