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Coloured Canyon, Ein Khudra, and the Nawamis
The Nawamis are circular stone-walled structures with corbelled roofs — burial tombs built by nomadic shepherds in the Early Bronze Age, 3,100 to 2,200 BCE. They sit on small hills in the wadi system between the Coloured Canyon and Ein Khudra. The five-day version of the route extends the standard three-day trek to include time […]
Coloured Canyon to Ein Khudra via Jebel Berqa
The Coloured Canyon is a narrow sandstone gorge — banded red, yellow, white, purple from the iron and manganese in the sandstone layers. The three-day route extends from the canyon inland through Jebel Berqa to Ein Khudra oasis, where the trek finishes at a Bedouin garden under date palms. The route crosses from Tarabin territory […]
