Document page

Preppy 25printed 67 · PDF 78

SourceLive page, captured 7 Oct 2026

printed 67 · PDF 78

Page image rendered from the stored file at 110 dpi; it sharpens as you zoom. Outlines are placed from each region’s stored position on the page (594 × 846 pt).

readable

Source of this text: embedded text layer. The better of the embedded text and OCR is kept.

67 Valley of the Moon Hussain Aslam Bhinder M2F5 The Wadi Rum is not just a sand pit; rather, it is a point of elemental convergence, where the eternal meets the ephemeral, in which the universe itself stops, just for a brief moment as the desert winds blow fervently, and where the whispers of time past itself become audible to longing ears. Remembered as the ‘Valley of the Moon’, it offers more than just a sightseeing adventure, a heavenly ascent, a viewing perhaps amongst the greatest. The vast expanse covered by the sands of the Wadi Rum, are dotted with tales. Each miniscule of dust seems wishing to have a companion to relay its visions. The journey there is a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage to the beginning. Walking through this desert is to walk through a specific moment in time – the start of everything. The towering cliffs, standing as monoliths, see stories engraved within their rocks, stories of perhaps the first fire, man’s first home, everything one could possibly imagine! One standing in Wadi Rum, can’t hope to not see marvels, for everywhere you look are crimson spectators of time, and in the sky, the omnipresent sun, waiting to deliver judgement in the form of scorching heat, one that is felt across the desert. One could even wonder if this was the aftermath of a divine struggle. The silence here is not empty; in fact one could argue that it is the most telling. It plays as a symphony, as an opera, as a tragedy, a perfect backdrop for more-than-perfect scenery. Passage here is difficult, unless one would wish to find himself in a spiritual crisis, for such beauty and marvel couldn't be an accident, but the consequence of a higher power’s initiative. Alone stands the Wadi Rum, as a marvel of divine creation and ingenious.