Sleeping With the Bedouins… (part 11-a) by Robert M. Katzman
Sleeping With The Bedouins (part 11-a)
By Robert M. Katzman © December 1, 2017
Bedouins, originally badawi in Arabic, are nomadic borderless Arabs of the desert.
I had been to Jordan before, with Rick Munden, in May 2000, where he and I both had bad problems with our feet at the end of our nine days in Israel. We were on our way to Petra, also known at one time as the Rose City because of the color of the mountains, which is now a world famous destination of a Nabataean civilization buried under the red sand for about 2000 years.
Originally a bustling Arab community on the Silk Road to China located in a Roman province, it has incredible temples carved into the soft stone, Roman columns everywhere standing up and lying around like giant carved chips that fell off of a Las Vegas poker game table, a coliseum-like curved and stepped mass of seats facing whatever was entertaining them.