Hot-Air Balloon Flight over Wadi Rum
An hour suspended above the desert at sunrise.
Jordan45 min → 1hEasy
Best time
March – May · Sept – Nov
Currency
JOD
Climate
Desert
Flight
5h
Language
Arabic
Wadi Rum has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011, as much for its nature as for its human heritage. Its expanses of red sand, dotted with sandstone and granite massifs hundreds of metres high, form one of the most recognisable desert landscapes in the region.
The flight takes place at sunrise, when the low light reveals the relief and turns the sand from brown to pink and then orange. Forty-five minutes to an hour above the dunes, at low altitude, with higher passes that take in Jebel Umm Ishrin and Jebel Rum. The meeting time is very early: the experience is for travellers already settled in the desert the night before, in a Bedouin camp or a lodge.
Good to know: departure at 6am, so you are airborne as the sun comes up. Meeting point and drop-off are both at the Wadi Rum visitor centre.
Highlights
Take-off at sunrise
Silence, save for the burner
Jebel Rum and Umm Ishrin
Flying just above the dunes
What's included
A 45-minute to 1-hour flight
Private basket
Coffee, tea and water
A selection of biscuits before the flight and during inflation
Itinerary
- 1Avant l'aube
Meeting at the take-off area
In the central part of the reserve, coffee and tea while the pilots prepare.
- 2
Inflating the balloons
Biscuits served while the basket is set up. Take-off waits until the wind allows it.
- 3
Take-off at sunrise
The low light reveals the relief and turns the sand from brown to pink.
- 445 min à 1h
The flight
Low altitude above the dunes, with higher passes over the surrounding massifs. No sound but the occasional burst of the burner.
- 5
Landing
Pick-up in the landing zone, then back to camp.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 3 days before departure.
Local partner
Globeasy local partner
Runs the excursion on the ground
Tour and activity operator across the whole kingdom, from Petra to Wadi Rum and down to Aqaba.
