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...sands of the parched Wadi, below imposing sandstone mountains. Captain's Desert Camp (tel: [962-3] 201 6905; www.captains-jo.com) offers desert tent accommodation, while Bedouin Roads (tel: [962] 795 899 723); www.bedouinroads.com) has local guides for mountain hikes. SYRIA In 1917, Lawrence joined Arabs in dynamiting the Hejaz Railway, which was built by the Ottoman Turks to carry Muslim pilgrims from Syria to holy sites and act as a supply route. But one 320-km stretch is still intact, and several times a week you can take the journey between Damascus and Amman, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals...
...SYRIA In 1917, Lawrence joined Arabs in dynamiting the Hejaz Railway, which was built by the Ottoman Turks to carry Muslim pilgrims from Syria to holy sites and act as a supply route. But one 320-km stretch is still intact, and several times a week you can take the journey between Damascus and Amman, Jordan (minimum duration is seven hours), passing sites that would have been familiar to Lawrence. Sitting in the sidings at Amman station are coaches recognizable from the era. In its heyday, the train carried up to 300,000 pilgrims to the annual Hajj in Mecca...
RISE OF WAHHABIS Early 1800s The Wahhabis, an orthodox Islamic sect that eventually allied with the prominent al Saud family, launch outward from central Arabia, invading Hejaz and Syria, taking Mecca...
...initiative on his own, without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after the destruction of the Hejaz railway...
...crash road-building program, Feisal plans 6,000 miles of new roads by 1970. He is also rebuilding the Hejaz Railway-in ruins ever since Lawrence of Arabia blew it apart during World War I-from Medina through Jordan to Syria. In Jeddah, he is putting up a $14 million water-desalting plant that will daily convert Red Sea water into 5,000,000 gallons of potable water and produce 45,000 kw. of power...