By the sea, south of the Jordanian city of Aqaba, stand the ruins of an ancient fort.
On the forecourt, the flag of "
the Arab revolt
" floats at the top of one of the highest poles in the world: "
135 meters
", specifies the brochure.
It was erected so that the flag would be visible from Israel.
Thus in the History of Man: we wash our linen as a family, then we hang it up in the sky to call God to witness.
Aboard three Yamaha race motorcycles, 700 cc displacement and Ténéré model (cut for the desert) we leave Aqaba on this March morning.
Arab Spring definition: crisp air, rustling palm trees, joyfully blue Red Sea.
We leave the city by the northern gate guarded by a dream: that of Lawrence of Arabia.
This desert of Wadi Rum, in the south of Jordan, served as a rear base for the Bedouins of Lawrence against the Turks.
In 2022, Sylvain Tesson and his companions cross it on a motorcycle.
Thomas Goisque.
Here, on September 6, 1917, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence and his friend Faisal, son of Hussein King of the Hejaz, tumbled from the horizon at the head of an army of Bedouin camel drivers.
They were coming to...
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