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After several years working with tourists in the beautiful desert of Wadi Rum in Jordan, I've got a big experience as a guide.
My name is Atayek Hamad, from the tribe of Zalabieh and i grew up in the desert where my parents are still living in.
I am very proud of my bedouin culture and I like to share it with the foreigners who are going to visit my area.
Very good driver, well experimented as trekking guide, I speak and understand english good enough and I want to communicate my passion of the desert to the others.
I know many beautiful places where you can contemplate the red landscape of Wadi Rum, on the top of the highest mountains of the place for example. I will show you the tracks of animal drawings on the sand, I will tell you about our wild bedouin life here, I will lead you through unknown canyons and roads. We will share together the pleasure of being in such an amazing place.
You can decide to sleep under a bedouin tent in a camp, or outside in the moonlight, you can decide if you prefere to visit Wadi Rum by jeep or by feet, I will adapt my tour to everyone, because each one has his own rythm, each one have different wishes.
I am sure you'll spend an unforgetable moment with us in our desert.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Help with Computers/ Internet
Help
Volunteers are also expected to help me with tourists doing translations and also explaining about the region and the tours.
There`s also some work to be done with some water dams that have being abandoned for a while and are now full of sand that must be shoveled away to store again water from the rainy season for ours animals.
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Accommodation
Volunteers can choose between sleeping in the Bedouin camps in the desert or in a private comfortable room next to the family house with outside toilet and hot shower.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4 hrs
Feedback (14)
The nights under the stars was amazing. The food was really great. Thank you for the opportunity.
I was with him for a months.
The camp is so beautiful. When I have free time, I walked lot in the desert.
I can see the great viewa all the times,
Job is so easy , relaxing,
All bedouin people are so friendly, I feel like family.
I enjoyed so much.
Thanks a lot. See you again!
Wadi Rum is an amazing desert, a breathtaking place, between dunes of red sand, rocks, camels, jeeps and under a sky full of stars.
Volunteering here was a good way to discover more about Bedouin's traditional life. It was really great to meet Atayek, and be integrate in his family and his routine.
Helping for hosting… read more
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The nights under the stars was amazing. The food was really great. Thank you for the opportunity.
I was with him for a months.
The camp is so beautiful. When I have free time, I walked lot in the desert.
I can see the great viewa all the times,
Job is so easy , relaxing,
All bedouin people are so friendly, I feel like family.
I enjoyed so much.
Thanks a lot. See you again!
Wadi Rum is an amazing desert, a breathtaking place, between dunes of red sand, rocks, camels, jeeps and under a sky full of stars.
Volunteering here was a good way to discover more about Bedouin's traditional life. It was really great to meet Atayek, and be integrate in his family and his routine.
Helping for hosting… read more
The main positive sign - the chance to live in the desert! It’s marvelous! Plenty of stars, quite place and a lot of cute camels around!
You can hike around or do a jeep-tour and sandboarding (which was amazing.. I was full of sand,… read more
I hope to return to the wadi one day. :)
