You can see Dead Sea way down there and the road we traveled along the Sea. You can also see the salt crystal beaches.

Dry Rocks as far as the eyes can go. The peaks are all under sea level!!

A few steps up from the Ma’in Hot Spring is a cave. The inside is sweltering hot. The water on the ground is so hot that you cannot step in it. I did. And I scowled and jumped back immediately. There are mats laid there where you can step on and sit on the rocks.

I have not yet figured out what the rich green coloration comes from. They are not algae/lichen etc. It is too hot for that. That is the color of the rock itself. Perhaps copper oxide?

This place – Ma’in Hot Springs – has multiple Biblical reference (referred to as Belemounta). The Romans used to visit here. Herod the Great bathed here for medicinal purposes.

Let the records indicate that centuries later, one Rajib Roy came here to take a selfie!

Imagine this… all around you see barren steep cliff mountains. And in the middle of that dryness, there is a waterfall.

So far so good. Then you dip your feet in the water and you realize that it is scalding hot. I mean from 113F to 140F hot!!

Completely unexpected. One thing that fools you is that you think you are very high. Actually you are nearly 900 feet below sea level.

The heat comes from veins that go deep into the magma. The whole Dead Sea lies on aa fault line (the larger African tectonic plate and the larger Eurasian tectonic plate)

Check out the roads built on the edges of the cliffs. Was enough to keep me on the edge of my car chair.

Just like sands on a beach there were very different shapes and sizes of the salt crystals

It so reminds me of the striations in the glaciers in Alaska that we saw in 2016