Guardians of the Desert ( GDs ) is an Eco-Tourism development and support initiative focused on empowering Palestinian Bedouins through the use of goal-oriented tourism with extra environmental care and preservation .
- Joining this initiative will give you a chance to experience the true Palestinian Bedouin life as you will live with a Bedouin family and work, learn and cook/eat with them.
- Understand and enjoy the Bedouin life as you live with the Palestinian desert knights, live under the stars and wonder through biblical and ancient grounds.
- Stopping forced sedentism and fighting the occupation at the front lines while helping save a dyeing culture and preserving a great heritage that nomads share all around the world.
Bedouins Without Borders (BWB) will facilitate your stay and all related accommodations and assign one of its local Bedouin guides to accompany you through this whole experience and translate to English between you and your Bedouin hosting family, providing transportation to and from the Bedouin site. On the other hand, your contribution will help the Bedouin site or family to improving their resilience and income in forms of sheep/goat feed and supplying tools and Veterinarian care offered by BWB , all in an eco-tourism approach ( nature preservation is as important as cultural preservation )
Joining (GDs initiative) will permit you to enjoy the following :
- Traditional and authentic Bedouin food
- True Bedouin heritage and ancestry
- True Bedouin heritage and ancestry
- Knowledge related to gender and childhood issues
- Knowledge related to health and well being of Bedouins
- Shepherding and grace land
- Fighting forced displacement and forced sedentism.
- Learn how Bedouins connect to urban society
- History glimpse of the Jordan valley and Naqab and Bedouin current locations in Historical Palestine
For Costume Tours please fill the following Application:
RECENT DESERT TOURS PACKAGES
THE BEDOUIN OBSERVER
Duration :6 hours field trip
Includes:
1-Transportation to and from designated city center
2-Seminar
3-Bedouin Guide
4-Bedouin Lunch
Please note :
1-Contributions are based on groups of multiplies of 5 people, any groups less than 5 will be charged for the remaining person/s since the point of this program is to help the Bedouin communities and to support them not to over whelm them with expenses
2- This is an early bird program so be ready to wake at dawn
TAL ALQAMAR
Duration : One Night
Includes:
1-Transportation to and from designated city center to camping site
2-Seminar
3-Bedouin Guide
4-Bedouin Camping Site admission
5-Bedouin Dinner
6-Bedouin Breakfast
Please note :
1-Contributions are based on groups of multiplies of 5 people, any groups less than 5 will be charged for the remaining person/s since the point of this program is to help the Bedouin communities and to support them not to over whelm them with expenses
2-Camp Site arrival time is 5:00 pm and Departure is 9:00 Am the next day
3-This is a more relaxed set-up as you discover the Bedouin prairie in a comfortable Bedouin Camping site
BEDOUIN KNIGHT
Duration : Two nights
Includes:
1-Transportation to and from designated city center to hosting family
2-Seminar
3-Bedouin Guide/translator
4-Bedouin Dinner
5-Bedouin Breakfast
6-Bedouin Lunch
7-Goat/sheep shepherding and possible milking
8-Cooking
Please note :
1-Contributions are based on groups of multiplies of 5 people, any groups less than 5 will be charged for the remaining person/s since the point of this program is to help the Bedouin communities and to support them not to over whelm them with expenses
2-Hosting Family arrival time is 5:00 pm and Departure is 9:00 Am the third day
3-In this program you should experience the Bedouin life
4-you must follow and obey your Bedouin hosting family as they will treat you as one of them
5-Bedouin life is hard work so get ready