The Dead Sea - Ein Bokek, Israel
Posted by: denben
N 31° 11.789 E 035° 21.798
36R E 725180 N 3453783
The Dead Sea is a large salt lake bordering Israel to the west and Jordan to the east.
Waymark Code: WMMR2W
Location: Israel
Date Posted: 10/28/2014
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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.
The sea bed has deposits of black mud that is easy to spread on the body and provides the skin with nourishing minerals. The bromide in the air is also beneficial to the body’s systems, thus making the Dead Sea a provider for good health and healing for vacationers from all over the world. In 2009, 1.2 million foreign tourists visited the Israeli side of the Dead Sea.
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