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Mars on Earth where Lawrence rode to Aqaba

Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. Masses of soaring cliffs and sandstone and granite mountains. The area has been used as a background setting in a number of films (
Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. Masses of soaring cliffs and sandstone and granite mountains. The area has been used as a background setting in a number of films (… © Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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