点评:Our guide was a 27-year-old young man, didn’t speak good English, and was less than enthusiastic. At each point of interest, he would show us the way at the starting point, and returned to wait for us in the car. There’s no explanation about the history or geography of the sites we visited. Lunch on both days were stew tomatoes with local bread. We were a family of 4, and each tent is for 2 persons. The camping equipment was of poor quality, and there’s only two pieces of tent peg, one for each tent. At the beginning, Khaled suggested that we brought one tent only and the two men can sleep on the sand to watch the starry sky. That could be a good suggestion for the summer season, but definitely not a good one in the middle of winter. We requested to have a second tent, and we were pleased that we had insisted on having the second one before we started. It was very windy and cold at night, and the wind cover of one of the tents was blowed away by the strong wind, as there’s no tent pegs to pitch it more firmly to the ground. The guide is a Bedouin and a good cook. The Zarb chicken he cooked for dinner was considered by our children as the best and most memorable meal we had in our Jordan trip.
We chose the sunrise-hike tour, but the guide had been saying the night before that in the morning it will rain, and there’s no point to go. In the morning of the second day, we woke the guide up at the agreed time, and he led us to the middle of a hill, not the top, to wait for the sunrise. That’s about 6:40am. After waiting for 30 minutes, he told us that the sun would only come out at 9am, there was too much cloud and we would not see the sun, there’s no point to wait, and we should go back. I knew the sunrise in Jordan was around 7:30am in that week, and I told him if we didn’t see the sun before 8am, then we go back. We saw a beautiful sunrise at 07:40.
The truck which was a Toyota, was really old, and on the second day, it broke down almost every 30 minutes. Every time, we had to get off the truck, and the guide had to pump the tyre in order for the truck to move again.
We had to find wood to make fire for cooking each meal, setting up the tents, and packed everything and put back onto the truck the next day. It’s a do-it-yourself tour, with one young man who functioned only as a driver and a cook, and that’s it. For about GBP600 for a family for this 2-day 1-night trip, with an average guide, a problematic car and the poor equipment provided, it was very pricy. If we ever visit Wadi Rum again, we would not go with the same agent for sure.
翻译:我们的导游是个27岁的年轻人,英语说得不好,也不太热情。每到一处景点,他都会在起点给我们指路,然后回来在车里等我们。他没有解释我们参观的景点的历史或地理。两天的午餐都是炖西红柿和当地面包。我们一家四口,每顶帐篷住2个人。露营设备质量很差,帐篷地钉只有两块,每顶帐篷一块。一开始,Khaled建议我们只带一顶帐篷,两个人可以睡在沙滩上看星空。这个建议对于夏季来说可能不错,但对于隆冬来说绝对不是什么好主意。我们要求带第二顶帐篷,很高兴我们在出发前坚持带了第二顶。晚上风很大,很冷,其中一个帐篷的防风罩被强风吹走了,因为没有帐篷钉可以把它更牢固地固定在地面上。导游是贝都因人,厨艺很好。他为晚餐做的扎布鸡被我们的孩子认为是我们在约旦旅行中吃到的最好、最难忘的一餐。
我们选择了日出徒步之旅,但导游前一天晚上就说第二天早上会下雨,没有必要去。第二天早上,我们在约定的时间叫醒了导游,他带我们到半山腰而不是山顶等日出。那是早上 6:40 左右。等了 30 分钟后,他告诉我们太阳要到早上 9 点才会出来,云太多了,我们看不到太阳,等也没用,我们还是回去吧。我知道那周约旦的日出时间是早上 7:30 左右,我告诉他如果我们在早上 8:00 之前看不到太阳,我们就回去。我们在 07:40 看到了美丽的日出。
那辆丰田卡车非常旧,第二天几乎每 30 分钟就会抛锚一次。每次,我们都得下车,导游必须给轮胎打气,卡车才能再次移动。
我们不得不找木柴来生火做饭,搭帐篷,第二天把所有东西打包放回卡车上。这是一次自助游,一个年轻人只担任司机和厨师,仅此而已。这个为期 2 天 1 夜的家庭之旅大约花费 600 英镑,导游一般,车子有问题,设备也很差,非常昂贵。如果我们再次访问瓦迪拉姆,我们肯定不会再找同一个代理商了。