Dead Sea Region

... of my trip will be my visit to the lost city of Petra hidden away between huge mountains and cliffs south of the Dead Sea. Equally impressing will be my visits to the massive Crusader Castle, my seeing Mount Nebo where Moses stood and saw before him ...

Growing up in Israel, I remember shocking my high school teacher and classmates during our "Homeland" class, saying that our purpose in life is not to be attached to one piece of land but rather to travel and explore all corners of the earth. More than ...

... .  As for moi, I think I did 80 clicks all the way down.  We are staying on a kibbutz 20 minutes from the Dead Sea.  It's beautiful here.  The odd thing I noticed were they alot of Thai migrant workers I find it very difficult to ...

... river has dried out to a large extent today, but it was much wider in Jesus' days 2000+ years ago. We left the Dead Sea region after the visit, and drove up Petra - the finale destination before departing home from Amman!  In the evening, we visited ...

... warm here but cold and snowy in much of Europe.  (CNN, BBC world news , and AlJazerra are our news sources) On to the Dead Sea area stopping at Qumrun where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave.  Dead Sea is about 1200 feet below sea level ...

Perhaps no place captures our imagination like the Dead Sea. The mythical Jordan River empties into this body of water – and never leaves. The waters that once served as a baptismal font end up stagnating in the Dead Sea – eventually ...

We 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 ...