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Travel Blogs from Dead sea, Jordan
Dying to go to the Dead Sea
This is a top pick! ... the obese topless men. Although they are equally wet they are still covered from head to toe in their burqhas and hijabs. This Dead Sea area is very interesting. At 400 metres below sea level it is the lowest place on earth. That in itself is ...
How Low Can You Go?
This is a top pick! ... the drying Jordan River, and no output to the ocean, as water evaporates in this hot hot sun, the salinity levels rise. The Dead Sea currently sits at 350 grams of salt/kg of water (it is rising), while regular ocean salt water sits at 40 grams of ...
Walking on a Dead Sea
This is a top pick! ... the dust and pollution. It's striking scenery none the less, witnessed in slightly better clarity on a later trip to the Dead Sea (photo above right). Being an important religious site the first church built here was in the 4th century, but the ...
The Dead Sea
This is a top pick! ... a bath. It was fantastic to know that you are at one of the lowest points on earth, and standing on the beach in Jordan looking across the Dead Sea which is actually a lake to Israel. The water was sooooo salty, and we got in on our mouth or in our ...
Floating in the Dead Sea!
... Dead Sea was one of the highlights of our Middle Eastern trip. We were looking forward to taking the famous 'floating the in the Dead Sea' picture. We are stocked up on tap water in Petra having been informed that we were bush camping that night (i.e. no ...
Only fotos!
Madaba / Mt. Nebo / Dead Sea
Monday, March 19, 2007 Madaba / Mount Nebo / Dead Sea Dear Readers: Regrettably, this is our final day in Jordan, and we must pack this morning for the return trip to Cairo. Driving north toward Amman, our first stop is at Madaba. ...
My trip to the south of Jordan- Part I
... pool, as much as we liked. My friends and I ran down the hill to the beach, even though the weather was already stifling. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth, 330 meters below sea level, so it's reeeeally hot. When we got in the salty water, which ...
Chapter Nine: Dead Sea, Amman
... mudded as well. Always a pleasure. And after we were sufficiently mudded, dried, cracked, and facelifted. Then back to the Dead Sea! "You're a d*" became known as "Pass the butter." Cousin love. After mudding and rinsing we headed to the ...
Driving along the Dead Sea in search of adventure!
... the emerald green trees, deep blue sky and coloured rocks displaying a picture perfect landscape. After descending to the Dead Sea level, the lowest point on earth at 400 metres below sea level, Akram proceeded driving along ...
This is odd
A profoundly odd experience. That is as good as I can describe getting into the Dead Sea. It looks like normal water, when you touch it, it feels like water. But then you walk into it and realize that somethings odd, eventhough your feet don't touch the ...
Floating in the Dead Sea
... , wonderful blue hazy sky, nice warm breeze but most of all, right in front of us, for the picturesque turquoise coloured Dead Sea attracting us with its soothing calm waves. Israel was quite visible on the other side of the Sea. Michel was ...
We really did float!
... !!!) The first stop was Madaba (the city of mosiacs.) The big 'stop' was the Greek Orthodox church. However, we stopped at the Dead Sea product store for some shopping. I also stopped at a mosiac workshop and bought a mosiac piece from him. Way cool. Our ...
hothot
... order. heute mit taxi und driver sightseeing amman(zitadelle,blaue moschee, römisches theater und altstadt) dann transfer dead sea, mit halt wegen zigarettenpause (zufälligerweise in einer touristenfalle) und hotelbezug in traumhafter umgebung: ...
Swimming in the Dead Sea
... to head to Amman- but not before a snack of watermelon on the side of the road! They were selling whole watermelons along the Dead Sea highway so we bought one, pulled over on the highway and ate it! Haley conveniently had a travel food knife for ...
Lot's Cave, Jordan
... all the way to the top of the hill. After reaching our goal, from the top, the view of the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea was grandiose and quite beautiful which made the effort of climbing well worth it. In front of us the famous ...
Jordan and the People of the Rocks
... we lingered over our steaming mugs, not wanting to end the pleasant conversations. The first day we caught a minibus headed for the Dead Sea. An hour and half to the East of Amman, this salty body of water promises to make the most clumsy ...
7. Tag von Aqaba nach Ghor Mazra'a
... mir am Toten Meer einige Sachen zu zeigen. Also entschloss ich mich, Aqaba früher zu verlassen. Die Fahrt auf dem Dead Sea Highway ist eher eintönig. Nur kurz nachdem ich die Freihandelszone Aqaba verlassen hatte, gab es eine Möglichkeit die Schönheit ...
Bobbing in the Dead Pool
Our first destination in Jordan was the Dead Sea for a spot of bobbing. What a funny thing! For those of you who haven't been, imagine being in clear but oily-feeling water wearing a rubber ring and inflatable armbands on both your wrists and ...
Dead Sea: the lowest point on earth
... and hotter..It's brutally hot out here...I guess being about 441M below sea level, that is to be expected. Taking a swim in the Dead Sea is pretty strange..You can actually stand in the water and run (that's stand IN the water, not ON the water..only ...
Deserts and camels and religious sights...
... thing or a matter of their own religious wantings..they were all in white so very pure and whatnot.. Lastly, we visited the dead sea, which was just fantastic! I couldnt get over the floating thing, it was just the craziest phenomenon - you lean back ...
The Dead Sea
... entrance we needed to go into the hotels. There is quite a selection of places to stay-Marriott, the Movenpik, the Kemplinski, and then the Dead Sea Spa all range about $150-$240 a night to stay at but you can also just pay a day fee to use the pools ...
life back in Amman, Dead Sea, and roommates
... their brothers and sisters are dying in Palestine, but I really don't know. On to more happy things, I went to the Dead Sea again last weekend with some of my friends to Motaz's family's house. Oh my goodness is the house gorgeous!...and ...
Walk on water
We made our way from Amman to the Dead Sea to experience what the super salty Sea and mud was all about. We went to one of the public beaches which were unfortunately quite dirty, but the sea was great nonetheless. You can afford to get a single drop ...
Mount Nebo and the Dead Sea
... is preportedly where Moses was laid to rest, though there is no tomb to visit. There are breathtaking views of Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and the Dead Sea. Later that evening, we drove a bit further to the Dead Sea and had dinner there in the Movenpick ...
Can you really read a paper in the Dead Sea?
... I gave it a good crack in the vid... (nb. open cuts hurt 9 times more in the dead sea!!) The Dead Sea also marks the border between Israel and Jordan so every 10kms along the coast road I would get to a check point with a couple Toyota pick ups ...
Lot's Cave
It wasn't on the map yet as a tourist destination, but I found Lot's cave near the southern end of the Dead Sea. The biblical story tells of Lot and his family escaping from the un-righteous cities of Sodom and Gommorah. Lot's wife looked back, and turned ...
Day 72 - Petra to Dead Sea
... the drive though was looking over the plains of Jordan which was spectacular and a potash plant. Now I need to look up potash. The Dead Sea looks inviting and the resort seems nice so far. We had a good dinner and hopefully this will settle Tina a bit. ...