Duration
2 days / 1 night
Group size
Up to 6
Language
English, Arabic, basic German
The same descent as our day walk at half the speed, with an afternoon of doing nothing at the bottom. We leave Dana village mid-morning, drop through Wadi Dana with a donkey carrying the bags, and reach Feynan Ecolodge in time to sit on the roof while the light goes orange along the Wadi Araba escarpment. Dinner is the lodge's vegetarian buffet, eaten by candlelight. On day two we walk out at six to the copper mines and Byzantine ruins at Khirbat Faynan, drink tea with an Azazma family whose goats you will already have met on the trail, and take the 4x4 back up to Qadisiyah by early afternoon. Read this before booking. The ecolodge runs on solar: no plug sockets in the rooms, candles after dark, so charge everything in Dana. There is no meat on the menu and no alcohol sold or permitted on site. Rooms are shared twins unless you pay the single supplement. And if you have already walked Dana to Feynan with us in a day, this covers the same ground — book Ghuweir instead and thank us later.
We are eleven guides from Qadisiyah, the village above Dana, and most of us learned these trails herding goats long before the reserve had a name. Dana Trail Collective walks. No jeep tours, no camel photo stops. We take you down Wadi Dana to Feynan, through the water in Wadi Ghuweir, and out along the Rummana escarpment at first light when the Syrian serin is actually singing. Fees are split evenly across the collective and the Feynan drivers are paid properly. We will also tell you honestly when a route is beyond your fitness, because Dana sits at 1,200 metres and Feynan is close to sea level, and the mountain does not negotiate.
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