My Wife & I at the Dead Sea In Israel On Our Honeymoon

The Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַ‏‏מֶ‏ּ‏לַ‏ח‎, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت‎, al-Baḥr l-Mayyit, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level,[2] and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7 percent salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean.[3] This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. 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 balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

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[sipiripister]

Very nice!! I wanna be there!

[jafarbadafar19]

you misspelled Palestine***

[1hotfred]

@Wagagaa You just had to turn it political, funny how a few years ago Israel gave up the West bank....all problems solved right? Nope... two days later Palestinians were again firing rockets into Israel.

I could give you a history lesson, but you already have proven your closed mindness..

I think its great that they have the ability to have a honeymoon in a FREE country.

[Wagagaa]

You know the money you spent on your honeymoon probably funded the death of at least 1 Palestinian woman or child? Kind of taints the whole idea of a honeymoon dont you think?

[EstoSeAcaba]

Puto turismo de mierda, puto imperio.