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

It is a fairly sharp descent to the Dead Sea. That black rope you see? Well it is a water pipe that is taking fresh water to the beach – so that you can wash off the salt after getting into the water. Like I said, just like a normal beach – excepting all the sand has been replaced by salt!

You see those white beaches meeting the water? Well, that is no sand beach. It is all salt!! Can’t wait to get down there!

The sheer scale is mind blowing