Fifty years since the film crews left, following in Lawrence, and later Lean’s, footsteps can still reveal some of Jordan’s finest desert jewels. Today, Jordan is one of the Middle East’s safest tourist destinations and plays host to an endlessly varied landscape. Still “vast, echoing and God-like” – as Lawrence wrote in his account of his war experiences “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” – the desert’s hidden gems are now accessible to all. Lawrence traversed Jordan’s desert and the half century since David Lean set out to capture it for his cinematic epic “Lawrence of Arabia,” the blood red landscape that entranced both men has scarcely changed. In the 100 years since British army officer T.E.
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