The Dead Sea is a salt lake which surface and shores are more than 400 metres below sea level - the lowest elevation on the earth's surface. Its enormous salinity of more than 33 percent may avoid any animals to survive in the water, but it is extremely healthy for the human body and it will allow you to float without any movements. Swimming in the Dead Sea is a truly unique experience not to be missed.
Surrounded by arid hills, as devoid of life as the sea itself, the Dead Sea glistens under a burning sun with barely a ripple disturbing its surface. The rocks that meet its lapping edges become covered with a snow-like thick gleaming deposit of white salt.
At the Jordan Valley and river you reach to Bethany beyond the Jordan, the site where John the Baptist has baptized Jesus Christ according to the New Testament.