Wadi Rum Camel Ride with Bedouin Tea and Guide

The listing prices this camel ride at $49 per person for a group of up to 5 travellers. That rate buys three things: the 1-hour camel ride itself, led by a Bedouin guide, the jeep transfer out to the camels and back, and drinks, meaning Bedouin tea plus water at the dune stop. The guide works in English and Arabic.

Start time is chosen at booking, so you can slot the ride into a morning or an afternoon around other plans.

What is not in the price

The Wadi Rum Protected Area entrance fee is not included. Foreign visitors pay $7.05 (5 JD) per person at the Visitor Centre, and children under 12 enter free. If you hold a Jordan Pass, show it with your passport at the gate and the fee is waived.

Note that a couple of other listings in this catalogue quote the fee as high as 7 JD, so carrying extra cash is a sensible habit. No tour on this site includes the fee in its ticket price.

Booking terms

Free cancellation runs up to 24 hours before the start, which makes this an easy listing to book early and drop if the weather turns. Reserve now, pay later is available. There is no minimum age stated for this ride and the difficulty is rated easy.

Practical prices and transport for arranging a visit yourself are collected on the Wikivoyage Wadi Rum page.

The entrance fee and the Jordan Pass are explained in full in the Wadi Rum entrance fee guide.

You meet at the Wadi Rum Village Rest House, at any camp inside the protected area, or with pickup from the Visitor Centre. Arrange the exact meeting place in advance through the number on your voucher, since the desert has no cell phone coverage and a missed connection has no easy fix. Rum Village sits inside the protected area and is where most tours in the catalogue start, about 7 km past the Visitor Centre.

From the meeting point a jeep or SUV carries you 15 minutes into the desert to the camel spot. The ride out doubles as a short tour, with the valley's sandstone and granite walls sliding past the window. The camels wait in open sand, handled by local Bedouin, mostly of the Zalabieh tribe, who run the village's camel rides and jeep tours.

Why the jeep transfer matters

Without it you would ride from the village edge, where jeep traffic is heaviest. The 15-minute drive puts you on the camels in quieter sand, so the hour in the saddle is spent in the open desert rather than near the car park. The same jeep brings you back at the end, so you never walk anywhere.

The camel ride itself runs about 1 hour, led by a Bedouin guide. You travel at camel pace, which is slow enough to talk, take photos and watch the light move across the sand. The listing sells this as seeing the desert from a different perspective, and that is the honest appeal: the same valley that a jeep crosses in minutes feels much larger from the back of a camel.

Reviewers mention well-cared-for camels and chatty guides, which fits a small-group format of up to 5 people. With a group that size the guide can set the pace to the least confident rider and answer questions along the way. The ride is rated easy, and the guides handle the animals, so you mount, sit and enjoy the view.

If you have never ridden a camel

The mount and dismount are the awkward parts, and the guide talks you through both. Wear comfortable clothes, and expect a gentle swaying walk rather than anything fast. If one hour sounds short, the 9-hour jeep tour with camel ride, sandboarding and lunch includes a 20-minute camel ride among nine or more sites, while the half-day private jeep tour can add a 45-minute ride.

This listing is the one that gives camels the most time.

After the ride you break for 20 minutes at the Al Ramal red sand dune. Bedouin tea and water are served while you sit with the dune and the mountains around you. The red dune is one of the signature sights of Wadi Rum, and it appears on the itineraries of most jeep tours in this catalogue too.

This stop is the second half of what you pay for. The ride gives you the movement, the tea gives you the stillness, and 20 minutes is enough to climb a short way up the sand if you want the view from the top. Then the jeep runs you back to Wadi Rum Village, ending the outing about 2 hours after it began.

• What to bring: sunglasses, comfortable clothes and a headscarf.
• The desert has no cell phone coverage, so sort your meeting point before you head out.
• Carry cash for the entrance fee, $7.05 (5 JD) per person, paid at the Visitor Centre.
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start.

This is the right pick if you have half a day at most in Wadi Rum and want the classic desert experience without committing to a full jeep circuit. It fits first-time riders, families with children, and travellers staying in Rum Village or a camp inside the protected area who want a short outing. No minimum age is stated and the difficulty is easy.

It is the wrong pick if your goal is to cover the main sights. One hour on a camel plus a tea stop does not reach Khazali Canyon, the rock bridges or Lawrence Spring. Those sit on the jeep itineraries.

The honest note on this listing says it plainly: one hour on the camel is the whole point, and if you want the canyons and arches too, pair it with a jeep tour.

Good pairings

The obvious pairing is a jeep tour in the other half of the day. The half-day private jeep tour runs about 4 hours in the morning or at sunset. If you have a full day, the camp stay with a full-day desert tour and 3 meals covers the highlights, ends at sunset and includes a night in a private tent, at $53 per person, which is barely more than this ride alone.

This is the shortest and cheapest way onto a camel in Wadi Rum, and the only listing built entirely around the ride. The table below sets it against the closest alternatives in the catalogue. If a night under desert stars matters more than the saddle, the overnight options win on sheer coverage.

Figures current for Q4 2026.

Against the half-day private jeep tour, this ride trades four hours of sightseeing for one focused hour on a camel at $23.50 less. Against the 9-hour day tour it trades coverage for depth. If you want both a ride and the bridges and canyons, the 9-hour tour folds a short camel ride into a full circuit, or you do this ride and a jeep tour separately.