After breakfast, we say good-bye to the Red Sea, and head out to another incredible location of Jordan: The Wadi Rum desert. Wadi Rum isn’t just a desert, it’s a full-on, otherworldly experience that makes you feel small in the best possible way: endless red sand, towering sandstone mountains rising straight out of the earth, silence so deep it almost hums, and sunsets that look like the sky is on fire! Films like Lawrence of Arabia, The Martian, Dune, and Star Wars were all filmed there because Wadi Rum literally looks like another planet. And when we’re standing there, wind in our faces, red sand under our feet, you’ll understand why. We’ll explore it the 1000 Treks way: on a 4×4, scrambling up rock formations for epic views on a full day desert adventure.

As if that weren’t enough, we will end the day and spend the night at a surreal Bedouin camp, where our room will be a futuristic bubble luxury tent. I purposefully chose our dates so that we will be in Wadi Rum under a very dark sky (two days after new moon). This will be one of the most magical nights of our lives! And we will have to make one of the hardest decisions we’ll ever have to make:

To sleep in a Mars bubble tent.

Or outside, under a million stars.

Accommodations: Mira Bubble Luxury Camp or similar

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner at Bedouin camp