Unique visits to the local Bedouins in Jordan , will add a lot of flavor to your trip. Enjoy a new warm feeling when you pay a visit to a typical traditional Bedouin family, have your Bedouin dinner which includes; a variety of spiced barbecued and oriental Bedouin ( alzerb or metmara, buried vegetables in the sand and maqlouba) food, dessert, and the famous Bedouin tea that is represented in a very special blend. Bedouins has their own special blends of teas that they make from the dried leaves of various desert plants. On special occasions, they mix the leaves from those plants with other spices.
Bedouin nights are mostly held in oriental decorated tents, with a live show including; folkloric dance, tambourines, Such a memorable night, returns back the essence and memories of a thousand and one nights, never to miss it.
Bedouin culture and get to know your friendly hosts as they share their knowledge of the lifestyle. As guests of the generous and hospitable Bedouin people, take a welcoming rest here whilst you sit around the campfire talking, drinking and eating. Enjoy a special blend of hot, sweet Bedouin tea with herbs, and enjoy a delicious rustic meal amidst traditional Arabic surroundings. Afterwards, relax into the night under a beautiful, clear, starry sky.
Bedouin nights, give you the feeling of the old Arabian Nabataeas times, we recommend adding a Bedouin night to your trip schedule. Enjoy it in Petra.
Where to stay in Bedouin night:
- Nabatean`s cave:
This cave will let you have an excellent experience of how the ancient Nabataeas where live in Petra, with archeological site of many Nabataeas caves and tombs around you like a snake monument: The snake monument Tomb is carved into the rock with a narrow entrance and no outward display, but inside 12 graves are cut into the floor
clearly a family affair. On one wall there is a rough relief carving of two snakes attacking a four-legged animal (a dog?), while above it to the left is a horse with a block-shaped rider, carved on a smaller scale. What the figures signify is a puzzle, but the snake is believed to be a representation of the guardians of the underworld.
For most of the way the rocks are a riotous mixture of all shades of red, blue, mauve, salmon, orange and yellow, but near the top they change to the same pale honey color of al-Beidha. Just before the path reaches the plateau stand two djinn blocks, cut from the bedrock. They are part of a considerable necropolis.
- Bedouin Tent:
These black tents that seem so romantic on the landscape are called in Arabic beit shaar or house of hair. They are familiarly referred to as a beit or house
They are woven by the Bedouin women out of goats hair, in separate sections; a woman will normally weave the sections for her own house, and also prepare the fabric strips in advance in anticipation of future need by her family or perhaps her children later. Goats hair shrinks when it is wet, so in winter the tent is protected by the closely woven fabric. When
it is dry, this fabric often sags, seeming to have holes everywhere, and allowing a breeze to enter.
Having been welcomed into a Bedouin tent, guests are honored, respected, and nourished, frequently with copious amounts of fresh, cardamom-spiced coffee, Or the Bedouin tea, Some festivity, including music, poetry, and on special occasions even dance. The traditional instruments of Bedouin musicians are the shabbaba, a length of metal pipe fashioned into a sort of flute, the rababa, a versatile, one-string violin, and of course the voice. The primary singers among the Bedouin are the women, who sit in rows facing each other to engage in a sort of sung dialogue, composed of verses and exchanges that commemorate and comment upon special events and occasions.
