Our last stop in Jordan is at the Dead Sea and here's what Wikipedia says about it:
The Dead Sea is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
Its surface and shores are 430.5 metres (1,412 ft) below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. It is 304 m (997 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% (in 2011), it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water – 9.6 times as salty as the ocean – and has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea's main, northern basin is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point.
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean Basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from asphalt for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilisers.
The Dead Sea is receding at a swift rate; its surface area today is 605 km2 (234 sq mi), having been 1,050 km2 (410 sq mi) in 1930. The recession of the Dead Sea has begun causing problems, and multiple canals and pipelines proposals exist to reduce its recession. One of these proposals is the Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project, carried out by Jordan, which will provide water to neighbouring countries, while the brine will be carried to the Dead Sea to help stabilise its water level. The first phase of the project is scheduled to begin in 2018 and be completed in 2021.
It's a very cool place to visit but expensive. And they don't want you bringing your shisha (whatever the hell that is) into the hotel. I had a bit of rum left from the last stop and I brought it in anyway...fuck 'em!!!
Again we had a really nice room with a great view.
And we met this little kitty kat at the restaurant we ate at. What a beauty!!!
I was impressed that the plumbers didn't need to bury their lines under the sidewalks...very economical.
The Dead Sea. The made a little swimming pool if you don't like going in the actual sea.
A small beach for hotel guests.
Darrell, the guy on the right, was one of a few normal Australians on the trip, he liked to have a beer and have a good time. Who knows who the guy on his left is.
And the guy on the right is David, another great guy from the trip also an Aussie. I hope we meet up with him and his wife again. Much fun.
A couple more Aussies - Adrian and Julie - they've covered themselves with the mud from the Dead Sea which has magical healing powers.. RIGHT!
The local beer brought from Petra by David. Not bad beer at all from a country where most of the people would like to kill you for drinking beer.
At the Dead Sea we went to the Jordan River and below is the spot where John The Baptist baptized Jesus. There must have been more water then.
We are, of course, on the Jordanian side. The picture below shows a bunch of people on the Israeli side waiting to get baptised. They sounded like Russians.
Another group on the Israeli side.
That's it for the Dead Sea.