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Ein Bokek-Dead Sea Ein Bokek, Dead Sea Region, Israel, 86930, 972-8-668-8000
Two days ago we were still in Jerusalem. Visited the western (wailing wall) again to see the tunnels under the wall. The part you can see is only about ten percent of the wall. The wall is a retaining wall and not a wall of the temple. The golden dome on the Temple Mount is a moslem mosque and jews are not permitted there. The Mount is a flat area about 5-10 acres on the highest point of the Old City. (Israelis carry a national identity card.) The western wall is so important to the jews beca...
Dead Sea Region, Israel shirlbellWe are at the Dead Sea now for 3 days. It is very desolate but beautiful. The Dead Sea (DS) has no life in it at all, 33% salinity so you cannot drown or even sink (Bob tried and kept "bobbing up" - yuck, yuck). We took a 3 hour jeep trip off road driving through amazing wadis (small valleys) where the jeep touched the wall on each side - it was the most amazing off road tour i have ever had. There is an entire mountain of salt here - 8 miles long an 1 mile wide - we topped in one canyon of s...
Dead Sea Region, Israel shirlbellThis morning, we went to Masada which is an important site in Jewish history. It was originally built by Herod in the first century as a private palace, very luxurious, high on a mountain top, 1600 feet above the valley floor with only a very narrow trail to access it. After Herod died in 4 CE (common era, AD to us), it was taken over by a small garrison of Roman soldiers. However, around 60 CE, a small group of Jewish zealots took it over and established a community. This was officially the ...
Dead Sea Region, Israel shirlbell
... so it doesn't count.<br>Next we bought some dead sea mud in the hotel. I remember back when I was 17 there were people with buckets of mud on the beach and for a few shekels you could take as much as you want. I don't know if it was because we were at the hotel beach or not, but there were none of those people to be seen this time around.<br>I had to buy mud from a pack, a pack that I could get anywhere really. It made it seem less authentic to me but ...
Dead Sea Region, Israel travelbug15... is the word used consistently and emphasized. These are not war casualties. The Nuremburg Trials determined that these were crimes against humanity and not just war crimes. I'll get off my soap box now, but this is the intent of the museum.<br><br>The zen-like atmosphere at the end is achieved with two perfectly symmetrical cones: one soaring above your head covered in photos and mementos, the other carved into the bedrock with a reflecting pool at ...
Sedom, HaDarom, Israel hkcigar... or so people in attendance. As usual, when meeting random people here, they were mostly shocked and confused as to why I would voluntarily go to the Israeli army, no less why I would pay for it. Returning to the campground, the sandstorm was, amazingly, still raging on firecely. While the Israel among us insisted on throwing the tent back up and sleeping in it (he was nothing more than a body under a fabric cloth), the other kid and I slept uncomfortably in the car ...
Dead Sea, Israel salerhand... the Palace hotel to join our tour for the day. It cost 15Dina and included the sights of the dead sea, Mt Nebo, Mada and Bethany beyond the Jordan. We first arrived at Mada and all that is there is a church with a Mosaic not really my thing and a bit boring, good job I only paid 1 Dina to get in, from there we headed to Mt Nebo where you can look out to Israel and the dead sea only problem was it was hazy so the ...
Dead Sea Region, Jordan richardcowley... Restaurant for lunch and it is good. The man there tells us where to get the bus to the Dead Sea, our next stop. He is the first one we meet who seems to want to tell us how to get around on the local busses. We then go to the tourists office for a brochure and then into the castle. We have a young military man to show us around, he is quite knowledgeable and I think he enjoys speaking with us. The building of the castle began around 1141 and ...
Karak, Jordan dancejill... month visas. We didn't seem worth a customs check, I supposed, we just walked on by, and met our guide, named Doreen, who was waiting for us just after customs. We loaded out mountain of luggage into the 16 place mini-bus (some ended up in the isle), and started north through the Arava desert valley, which runs below the Negev desert plateau to the west of where we drove. After several hours of driving (and one restroom stop) we came to the lower part of the Dead Sea ...
Ein Bokek, Israel joelmeeker... Aviv par la route empruntée à l'aller et nous nous sommes douchés, le sel de la merte morte est tenace ( d'ailleurs Israel est en train de totalement détruire le site et de l'assecher pour des raisons industrielles, ils extraient des mineraux et autres sels utiles a l'industrie et on peut voir à l'oeil des dommages faits à la nature...) A Tel Aviv nous avons diner dans un petit snack a la française et nous sommes rentrés.
Ein Bokek, Israel sarahetnyny
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