Stops on the

Incense Road

 

Gaza(Jenysos)
Elusa
Ruheiba
Obodat
Wadi Fiqreh
Wadi Arabah
Sela
Rekem, (Petra)
Ayl
Gryn
Hawara
Wadi Rumm

Al Uyaynah

Northern Desert Trek

Tayma
Meda'in Saleh

Dedan

Khaybar
Medina

Southern Desert Trek
Najran
Sa'ada

Yathul
Marib (Saba)
Timna (Qatraban)
Shibam(Hadramaut)
Ubar

 

Further Information

Camels

The Maritime Route

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South of Medina the insence caravans took several different routs. Some traveled through the rugged mountains, while others kept closer to the desert to avoid inhabited places where theives or taxes were a threat. At various places along the Incense Route, small buildings were erected for the caravan drivers to sleep in. Buildings like this dot the entire route from north to south, as well as other routes across the desert to the east and west.

	A Canadian, an American and a Kiwi check out this caravansary in the desert. The author (right) traveled much of the Incense Road between 1979 and 2003.
	The interior structure is almost identical to other structures found through out Nabataea. Stone arches were built, and then long squared rocks were placed over them and the spaces filled with more rock.
	Note the use of stone columns with large flat rocks used to connect the columns together. This building is in almost perfect condition, despite the many years that it has stood without maintenance.