Random Travels & A Change of Name

Well, it’s nearly all over. On Saturday we leave for Amman where we will spend a week digitising as much footage as possible. This leaves us only 4 days left to enjoy village life. It’ll be a sad day for us when we leave…

Last week we decided to rent a car and do some travelling. We checked out the crumbling Crusader castle Ash Shawbak (see pic above), the vast views from the old city of Dana (see pics below), and the sand-swept dunes of Wadi Araba where we managed to locate a few local Bedouin with some surprising things to say about Bedouin life.

But the biggest news is that we’ve decided to change the name of the film. We arrived in Petra with certain preconceptions about the place. At that time we figured Erosion of a Tribe was a pretty good title. Having spent a month and a half with these people, however, we’ve come to realise that the title’s negative connotations don’t gel with the actual situation.

As such we’re now calling the film After Tomorrow for reasons that will quickly become clear when the film is finished and the article written. The blog title will stay the same for now (‘cos we can’t be bothered to change it at the mo!), but the new title has been created in a sand bottle for us to stress its permanence:

The next few days will see us scrambling to arrange interviews with the constant barrage of interesting people we continue to meet every time we walk down the road, so this will probably be the last blog entry till Amman.

We leave you with a slightly different sunrise view of the Treasury in Petra. A lot of sweat went into getting to that particular spot for the shot, so let’s hope it turns out okay in the film!

Ciao for now,

Carl & Touf

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