Due to its healing properties, the Dead Sea has long attracted tourists from all over the world. The water in it is healing, as well as dirt, with its unique chemical composition. Famous silt sulfide mud from the Dead Sea a highly mineralized, with a high content of bromine, iodine, hormone-like substances. Scientists have recently discovered that the Dead Sea almost completely dried up 120,000 years ago.

Over the last century the water level dropped by 25 meters, and the destructive process progresses only. At present, the water level in the Dead Sea is reduced by about three feet (90 centimeters) per year, as the water that once merged into it, now used for irrigation. Environmentalists and representatives of the tourism industry are afraid that the Dead Sea could disappear entirely. So hurry if you want to have time to visit this amazing place!
If you are coming from Jordan:Getting there: Most visitors to the Dead Sea are sent to a day trip from Amman.Where to stay: on the coast there are four-and five-star hotels. If you are looking for a budget option, you can buy a day pass to the beach.Customers have the means can turn into a luxury hotel Mövenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea, located just above the Dead Sea. It offers world-class spa, two swimming pools and many activities. Prices range from special offers cost 140 dollars to apartments worth more than $ 1,000 per night.
If you are coming from Israel:
Getting there: From Jerusalem. The northern shore of the Dead Sea is only an hour away.Where to stay: At the Ein Gedi Ein or Bodek. Here there are luxury hotels, budget and camping on the coast.
1. Aerial photography. People sunbathing on the public beach on the Dead Sea.
2. Bather at the Dead Sea to the north of the Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the West Bank.
3. Aerial photography. The salt formation on the surface of the Dead Sea.
4. A man washes away dirt from the medical body of fresh water in the Dead Sea.
5. Victor Zamora, a Chilean miner, the Dead Sea near the Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the West Bank.
6. Tourist on the Dead Sea.
7. Tourists covered with black mud body treatment
8. A boy shows his smeared mud palm.
9. Tourists on the beach near the Dead Sea.
10. Parasols on the beach at the Dead Sea.
11. Pond on the southern shore of the Dead Sea.
12. The salt formation on the surface of water in the Dead Sea.
13. Water-filled ravine on the shore of the Dead Sea.
14. Cracked earth at the Dead Sea.
15. Clouds over the Dead Sea to the north of Ein Gedi.