“Sand, mountains softening until they crumble into sand. Reaching the desert is always a thrill, because you can see the sharp boundary between the rocky dirt track and the pure sand, as if a giant had fun tracing the edge with their own hands. This is Wadi Rum, one of the most magnetic places, where you wouldn’t think it, but once human ingenuity channelled the rainwater to quench the thirst of the peoples who lived in the gorges of this arid land.”