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The desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan

Cool red sand, rock arches and a sky so full of stars you could never count them all.

Red rocks and a stone arch under the Milky Way in the desert of Wadi Rum

What happened here

A scene from "Stars Over the Desert"

Aurora Around the World

Stars Over the Desert

At The desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan · with Reem

Clouds hide every star on the family picnic, and Aurora wishes they would come back. Then the cool grass turns to soft red sand, and on a dune stands Reem, an oryx whose family once had to find its way home.

What Aurora learned

People can help animals come home to the wild

  • Around the world
  • The sky
  • Nature

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Aurora Around the World

10 Bedtime Stories About Animals and Places Around the World for Kids Ages 3–7

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