Carlton Dead Sea Ein Bokek

... anyone has ever drowned in the Dead Sea.<br><br>4. By late afternoon, we had arrived at our last stop &#8211; Qumran, known chiefly as the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd boy looking for a lost goat. He happened upon a cave full of jars which were found to contain a precious hoard of linen-wrapped scrolls that had been preserved for 2.000 years. The scrolls are considered the earliest recordings of hymns, prayers and religious writing that ...

... he pointed to a cluster of lights off in the distance on the Israeli side. "You see those lights?" he said. &#8220;Jerusalem.&#8221;<br><br>I felt as if I had gotten the wind knocked out of me. There I was, looking at the twinkling lights of the world's most contested city. The city that has cause so much violence and hatred and bloodshed was just sitting there on top of a hill sleeping peacefully that night. It was a pretty heavy ...

... br><br>Die Fahrt auf dem Dead Sea Highway ist eh** eintönig. Nur kurz nachdem ich die Freihandelszone Aqaba v**lassen hatte, gab es eine Möglichkeit die Schönheit d** Wüste im Bild festzuhalten. D** Rest d** Fahrt bot wenig Abwechslung. Kurz bevor die Ausläuf** des Toten Me**es beginnen wird es auch etwas grün**. Da das Tote Me** 400 Met** unt** N.N. liegt, ist es natürlich von B**gen umgeben, aus denen - wenn auch wenig - Wass** zum bewäss**n d** Feld** fließt. Es gibt ...

... Darstellungen. Witzigstes Detail d** Karte: 2 Fische, die v**zweifelt v**suchen vom Toten Me** zurück den Fluss Jordan flussaufwärts zu schwimmen... <br><br>Da zur Zeit meines Besuches die Hauptstrasse durch Madaba eine riesige Baustelle war, hab ich einige Zeit gebraucht, um die Innenstadt zu finden, in d** sich die Kirche bfindet. Auch die Beschild**ung zum B**g Nebo v**wirrt mich, sodass ich aufgebe und die Strasse Richtung Karak weit**fahre. Das dann ab** im nächsten Eintrag...<br>

... like that happen again. After some last-minute checking by Micha with his contact, we got the go-ahead to go to Bethlehem. Remember, Bethlehem is in Palestinian territory, and there's often unrest there. But things were calm that day, so we got to go. Micha was able to take us only as far as the Palestinian checkpoint. I'm not sure if we wasn't allowed to go in, or if he chose not to go in, but either way, he didn't go in. At ...

... face.  Then I told him I didn't know the area since he was asking if I knew where the bus station was in East Jerusalem.  I said I was heading to this bar in East Jerusalem I'd read about in Lonely Planet that was called Borderline, located on the green line that used to separate Israel from Jordan until 1967.  He said we're going in the same direction so we can walk together.  So we chatted in Arabic about family, politics, etc on our way crossing from West ...

... jeans or carrying their cameras) but that made it even more fun. On the way back to Madaba we stopped at the Panoramic complex, the views over the Dead Sea weren't great because it was hazy, but they had a really good museum there about the area- the dead sea, geology etc. There were lots of rocks on display and explanations about water that only a hydrogeologist could appreciate- Dave loved it. On our last day in Madaba we drove nearly two hours to a crusader ...

... their backs! We spent a pleasant few hours floating around and rubbing the mud onto our skin (the local spa treatment). Just next door to the private beach area (we paid $25 each Canadian to have access to the beach and changing facilities!) there was a public beach filled with Jordanian families, women in full black abayas wading in the water. After a quick rinse, it was off to the airport to catch our flight to Oman.

... or wrongness of what was done, it is altogether a most moving monument to courage and the passion for freedom. From Masada, we drove north to En Gedi, the desert oasis where David took refuge from Saul who sought his life. We read the passage in 1 Samuel 24 where Saul searched for David at En Gedi and where David cut off part of Saul's robe in a cave. There are many caves in the rocks evident today. We saw an ibex, a small mountain goat, cross our path as we ...