Dead Sea

To end my long day of all the sight seeing I ended the day at the Dead Sea. If anyone ever does this, after walking back from the River Jordan to the car, you will want to be hosed down cause it is HOT in Jordan in the summer! I could not wait to get into the water. There are good hotels on the coast that you can pay a day fee and use their pool and beach (just like in Dubai) or you can go to the public beach. This has two really nice resort-esq pools, changing rooms, showers, and a bar for soda and water. BTW I dont think I've mentioned this yet, but you have to pay for everything at these sites- pay to enter the church, pay to enter the site, pay to get into the group to get through the Security zone, and so on. After all that you hear about the dead sea, and the special mud, I assumed the sea was going to be a swampy muddy gross experience, but happily it was not. After recapping all these experiences, I have a very overactive imagination- which does not ever turn out to be the way it really is :-) The Dead Sea is just like a normal lake, clean water, golden sandy bottom, with some salt beds on the shore. The water salinity is really cool though, I went to lay on my back and the moment I leaned back, my legs popped right up! You really do only float about 2" deep into the water! But otherwise, it is like swimming in a normal lake. They have buckets of mud sitting on the shores and people were lathering up with them, but I decided to buy the dead sea products and try it home.

So that was my day! SO MUCH sightseeing, but it was just what I've wanted to see since I moved over here!