Standing near the Lawrence of Arabia place, straining my eyes way out into the desert, I thought I saw something moving. At first I assumed, it was somebody on a camel. But the image was too thin for that. Then, it appeared that whoever it was, seemed to be running.

I asked Sharmila and Mahmoud – “Do you think, he is running this way?”

In the top picture, you can see the small image in the middle of the picture.

As I trained my zoom camera lens on the person, it became evident that it was a runner. In fact, he took a right turn around the mountain and I got a clean shot of him running.

That was awe inspiring. Running in that heat, in the middle of the desert on a hard to run surface like sand. And look at the perfect gait with the ankles thrown up high (unlike me).

Just as I was getting inspired, Sharmila put cold water on me… “Don’t get any ideas!!”

I was hoping that our four wheeler will cross path with him again. I wanted to ask him why was he running in the middle of the desert. Also, if he had any prior experience in ignoring his wife’s advice!

This rubble is reputed to be Lawrence of Arabia’s (British general who fought successfully with the Arab rebels against the Ottomans) house and armory storage. It cannot be independently verified whether this was indeed where he stayed, nonetheless, this location was used in the movie “Lawrence of Arabia”

The Wadi Rum desert lies right in the ancient path from Istanbul to Saudi Arabia. All over the desert you can see the inscriptions carved on rock paces by ancient travelers and original tribes.

This one is mostly petroglyphs of camels that dates back to the Thamud people (eight centuries before Christ).

The last one I did was in Mongolia. Those were the two humped, big ones (Bactrian). These were smaller and single humped (Dromedary)

The long shadow will tell you this was pretty early