
Location
Dana Biosphere Reserve, Tafilah Governorate
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.
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Wei Chen
Aug 2026
The jeep broke down twenty minutes in. Our host had it running in fifteen minutes with a spanner and a piece of wire, then made tea while we waited. Somehow that became the best part of the day.
Reply from Dana Trail Collective· Sep 2026
Thank you Wei. Next time ask me about the rock - I could talk about that limestone all day and rarely get the chance.
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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Aya Darwish
Aug 2026
Twelve kilometres across sand in the afternoon sun is genuinely hard, and nobody pretended otherwise. Ended it watching the light go orange on the rock with sweet tea in hand.
Anna Kovacs
Aug 2026
Loved the canyoning. There was a fair bit of waiting around while another group cleared the drop, maybe 25 minutes.
Layla Haddad
Aug 2026
Wadi Mujib in June: 34 degrees outside, freezing water inside, and I laughed the entire way up. Bring shoes you don't mind destroying.
Faris Al-Bakri
Jul 2026
Solid day out. The climbing section was shorter than I'd hoped but the guide was patient with my terrible technique.
Fiona MacLeod
Jul 2026
Our guide read the weather better than any app - we swapped the planned route at the last minute and avoided a flash flood two wadis over. That kind of judgement is what you're actually paying for.