- Our beautiful hotel
After a long and very tiring trip, we landed in Dubai. Hopped on the next flight and landed in Amman! The scenery coming was quite boring but we had an entertaining man from Rio next to us. His dad was born on the West Bank and his mother was born in Brazil. He has 2 children living in Liverpool and he lived there for 9 years and had a liverpudlian accent!!
Upon landing in Amman one of the pilgrims was taken away for questioning as he had a large pair of binoculars! They carted him away for about 20mins for questioning. They thought they were new huigh powered ones that couldhave him spying. He is only 70 odd!! We finally got underway and headed off to the factory that sells Dead Sea products. After US dollars had passed hands, we boarded the bus and headed to our accommodation on he shores of the Deda Sea. As we descended to the lowest point on earth, the temperature rose accordingly.
We registered and arranged to meet down by the sea for an experience. After carefully and painfully entering over about a metre wide of pebbles, we tried to sink into the depths. It certainly was a great experience trying to get yourself on your feet. I had a waterproof camera, so only used one hand as I thought the extreme salt might be real good for the camera. We then got out and rubbed ourselves down with the black mud.
After being told about the gorgeous sunset (and, of course, now being 10 years younger after the mud experience) we sat down at the bar and had a $15 Corona!! Then we had a $14 local beer!!! The wait was worthwhile!!

Aussdie bum!!

Sunset over the Dead Sea & Mountains of Jerusalem
All the people clamoring to capture photos of the sunset reminded me of Mindil Beach in Darwin at sunset!!

All trying to get the perfect shot