Wonderful Moonscape with hundreds of mountains and rock formations popping out of a sea of sand. Of Lawrence of Arabia fame. T.E. Lawrence used the area as a retreat from his guerrilla campaigns against the Ottoman turks. David Lean filmed part of his movie there.
Editors note - I have been here, toured by day and ate dinner at night in a Bedouin camp in Wadi Rum. Good food, gre...
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 a.m. local time (22:50 on 29 June, UTC) with 153 aboard. One survivor, a girl, was found.
Most of the passengers originated from Paris, who boarded Yemenia Flight 749, operated using an Airbus A330-200, with a stopove...
An UNESCO World Heritage site, the Qadisha valley is one of the most important early Christian monastic settlements in the world.
Nearby are the remains of the great forest of cedars of Lebanon, highly prized in antiquity for the construction of great religious buildings.
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