Drone Views of Jordan

You'll be amazed by this drone tour of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Jordan, compliments of creator omar.flies.  Created for the Jordan Tourism Board, the video - a 2023 FPV Drone Video of the Year nominee - incorporates footage from a DJI Mavic 3 drone as well as first person view (FPV) quads. The video opens in the Wadi Rum, a desert valley in southern Jordan famous for its sandstone structures.  Just after 1:00, you'll see the ruins of Jerash in northern Jordan.  Later, you'll see the Dead Sea, the city of Amman, and the ruins of Petra.  

Top contributor and drone pilot Chris Borg put together this amazing trip reel from the Middle Eastern country of Jordan.  Two of the main areas featured have become famous as filming locations.  The first is the Wadi Rum Desert, located in the southern part of the country, which was used for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and later the 2015 edition of the Star Wars series.  The other is the ancient city of Petra, which has been featured in numerous movies, most famously Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Top AirVuz contributor PerkoFPV earned a spot on the FPV Pilots to Watch list with this fantastic FPV video from the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan.  Also known as the Valley of the Moon, the Wadi Rum covers about 280 square mi. (around 720 square km).  Located a short distance east of the southern city of Aqaba, it's the largest of Jordan's river valleys.  With its unique rock formations, ancient ruins, and prehistoric rock inscriptions, the Wadi Rum has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011.  

Top AirVuz contributor Ghadir Shaar, a Finalist for the Drone Video Awards for his video from the United Arab Emirates, created this DVOW winning piece from a different Middle Eastern country: Jordan. Created in collaboration with the Jordan Tourism Board, the video opens with footage from the other-worldly Wadi Rum Desert. Other highlights include the Citadel of Amman at the :47 mark, the shores of the Dead Sea (:55), the great Petra ruins complex in the Arabah Valley (1:30), the amphitheater ruins at Jerash (1:42), and more.  

Take an aerial tour of the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan with this excellent piece by mezartash, which was nominated as a Drone Video of the Week finalist in November, 2019.  Some of the locations featured in the video include the ruins of Pella, a city in the country's northwestern corner; the ancient city of Petra in the southern desert, which has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site; the sleek modern towers of the capital city of Amman; the rock formations of the Wadi Rum Desert; and more.

Jerash is an ancient city in northwestern Jordan, near the country's border with neighboring Israel.  It dates to the Antiquity, although it was nearly destroyed in an earthquake in the 8th century AD and later rebuilt.  The city bears the marks of having been in the orbit of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations at various times in its history.  Award-winning contributor and pilot Fabio Knoll used a drone to create an amazing aerial tour of this city, which was unearthed by archaeologists in the early 1800s.

Wadi Rum is a desert valley lying in the southern portion of the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan.  Known for its spectacular rock formations, it was chosen as the primary shooting location for the legendary 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole. In later years, Wadi Rum "stood in" for the desert moon of Jedha in the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens and the 2019 installment, the Rise of Luke Skywalker.  Award-winning contributor Fabio Knoll created this marvelous drone's eye view of the great desert.   

Top AirVuz contributor Wissofpv used a DJI Mavic 3 Cine as well as a first person view (FPV) quad to create this marvelous aerial tour of Jordan, in the heart of the Middle East.  The video opens with some stunning shots from the Wadi Rum Desert, which was famously the main filming location for the 1960's epic Lawrence of Arabia.  At the 1:13 mark, you'll see the shoreline of the Dead Sea, which is shared with Jordan's neighbor Israel.  At 1:39, you'll see the famous Petra archaelogical site in the southern part of the country.  

AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) drone pilot SQuiD-FPV takes us on an epic FPV tour of the Wadi Rum Desert in southern Jordan.  Made famous for being the primary filming location of the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, desert is visually distinguished by its nearly-vertical sandstone mountains.  The video features some epic dives down these massive rock structures, by which the desert became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2011.  This video was picked for the FPV Pilots to Watch list in June of 2023.