The Dead Sea, Israel and Jordan

The Dead Sea is actually a lake (salt lake), the shores of the Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth (the not immersed is) at 423 meters below sea level. It lies on the border of Jordan, Israel & amp; amp; The West Bank. ( denied ).

The Dead Sea is almost 9 times saltier than the ocean, which makes it impossible for fish to calling for this reason, the Dead Sea to live.
Many tourists come to the Dead Sea every year for the preciousness of therapeutic mud and salt water to visit. Skin diseases such as psoriasis get significant relief with the natural resources of the Dead Sea.
Make sure you do not shave or an open cut, before you enter the water, or it will sting! It is also quite amusing, can swim in it without anyone real effort float (due to the high salt concentration)

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Wadi Mujib, Jordan

Wadi Mujib (or "Arnon" in Hebrew - mentioned 24 times in the Bible) is a canyon that was carved by the river. Wadi Mujib in Jordan Western (runs in the east side of the Dead Sea) away.
The river runs dry in summer (or almost dry), some of the remote mountain and valley regions around Wadi Mujib to be difficult to achieve - making it a great place for scarce species of wild cats and other mountain dwellers

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Petra, Jordan

Petra is an ancient city that are actually counted on the list of this wonder of the world, probably the biggest tourist attraction of Jordan. Petra is located on the side of Mount Horin, a large canyon injury from the Dead Sea and all the way south to the Gulf of the Red Sea.
Al Khazneh ("The Treasury") is probably the best known and most elaborate buildings in Petra, it was built somewhere between the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, it was bent when the city under a heavy Greek and Egyptian influences, and most of the curved details were derived from these cultures. Petra was abandoned and forgotten beneath the desert, when in 1812 the Western world was introduced to Petra by a Swiss explorer named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. The name - "Petra" is derived from the Greek word "stone" in Arabic there is no equivalent letter or note on the letter P, the name Jordanians there were -. Batra or Al-Batra visit

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Evason Ma'In Hotel, Jordan

Evason Ma'In Hot Springs Hotel is located just 4 km from the Dead Sea, Jordan.

The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth, at 420 meters below sea level.
Ma'In Hot Springs is like an oasis in the desert around him a.
Some of waterfals flow directly through the hotel.

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