The Rock camp is located on the scenic route of Wadi Nemelleh which leads to Wadi Araba, in the heart of the ancient incense & spice trade route. Taking advantage of their unique location and protective surroundings, the Nabataeans harnessed the rain water, a rare commodity in the arid desert, building dams and rock-carving water channels to create a major caravan station along the route offering water, safe haven to caravans, and irrigating fields of various kinds of grapes they grew. A rare & intact rock-carved grape press and 2,000-year old Nabataean water channels can be seen today at the campground.

 

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The camp also dominates the entrance to the beautiful narrow and winding hidden gorge of

Siq Ba’ja which leads to the 7,000 B.C. naturally fortified Ba’ja Neolithic village; where its dense terraced stone houses are still well preserved and sheltered from all sides by high rock formations

(ropes required up to the village).