Wadi Rum also known as The Valley of the Moon is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan 70 km to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan. Wadi Rum is Arabic for "Sand Valley", as Rum means sand, especially light sand that can be carried by wind

The valley is characterized by the existence of high mountains, where it has the highest mountain peaks in the south of the Levant, namely: Mount Umm al-Dami and Mount Ram. Wadi Rum is considered one of the most tourist areas in Jordan, which tourists come from all over the world because of the nature of the site, which is not made by any person, but is the work of nature despite the existence of inscriptions and Islamic and Islamic.

In recent history there are many nomadic tribes living in this valley, the most important of which is the tribe of Bani Atiyyah and Huwaytat. Today, it is inhabited by the tribes of the Zublaiya and Zuwaydah, which originally belonged to the Anzah tribe and the families of other tribes. Security forces of the Jordanian Badia.

The journey from Amman to Wadi Rum takes about 4 hours on the desert road or about 5 hours on the royal road. From Aqaba, the distance does not exceed one hour.

A number of international and local films were filmed in Wadi Rum :
- Red Planet – Wadi Rum was used as the surface of Mars.
- The Face – BBC Film, Rock climbing in Rum, featuring Wadi Rum, it's documentary.
- Lawrence of Arabia – a popular film that promotes negative stereotypes of Arabs in the West.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – represented as being in Egypt.
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