It provided David Lean with his most memorable movie locations for his epic 1962 film 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Finding it: Wadi Rum lies an hour by road east of Aqaba ... Finding it: Jordan's number ...

Lawrence proved himself invaluable when he took part in an attack on a port called Aqaba in Jordan. The Ottoman military thought nobody could cross the desert and attack it by land. But Lawrence ...

a mere shell of plaster and wooden framework from the east" The sprawling replica set of Aqaba was built in Almeria, Spain, for a 3 minute scene in the Oscar winning Lawrence of Arabia.

It had best be regarded as an adventure story rather than a biopic, because Robert Bolt’s well written screenplay does not tell the audience anything much new about Lawrence of Arabia ...