The Dead Sea

Floating is truly an experience. try not to swallow water ;)

I mainly want to snorkel/look for old coins. I don’t think a metal detector will work, but a small mesh screen or colander should do the trick.

The problem would be floating, but I could wear weights.

I wonder how coins submerged in heavy saltwater will fare? I’m guessing lots of pitting. Can’t wait to find out.

going to Isreal would of course be a major treat but going to the dead sea would be the highlight of the trip.I really want to swim in the dead sea. I can’t float. Everything can float in the dead sea with such high sodium levels. I really hope i get the oppertunity to float.

Use the beaches run by local Kibbutzim. They’re much calmer, and less overrun with tourists!

The Yam HaMelech is Sababa! Whatever you do DO NOT GET YOUR EYES WET!!!! I repeat, DO NOT GET YOUR EYES WET!!! This will burn and blind you until you RINSE, RINSE RINSE!!!, the salt and minerals out of your eyes. Also, DO NOT FLOAT TO JORDAN!!! DO NOT FLOAT TO THE WEST BANK!!! You will probably be VERRRRY, VERRRRY shriveled, in A LOT of PAIN, and VERRRY VERRRY SORRRY that you wound up there. Believe me.

Don’t go in with cuts. Yes you will float, and your cuts will burn. Cuts you didn’t even know you had. Shower frequently. DO NOT GET YOUR EYES WET!! I REPEAT, DO NOT GET YOUR EYES WET!!!
You WILL be sorry. Go immeiately to a shower and RINSE, RINSE, RINSE!!!!!. The mud is good for your skin. Ask where to dig it up. The locker costs a few shekels. It is very nice, but do not float to Jordan, as you are likely to be very dehydrated by that time, and very, very, sorry that you floated there.

Around three million years ago what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah/Nahal Arava was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea. The waters formed in a narrow, crooked bay which was connected to the sea through what is now the Jezreel Valley. The floods of the valley came and went depending on long scale climatic change. The lake that occupied the Dead Sea Rift, named “Lake Sodom”, deposited beds of salt, eventually coming to be 3 km (2 miles) thick.

According to geological theory, approximately two million years ago the land between the Rift Valley and the Mediterranean Sea rose to such an extent that the ocean could no longer flood the area. Thus, the long bay became a long lake.
       

is both the second lowest point on the Earth at 418 metres (1,371 ft) below sea level and falling and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world at 330 m (1,083 ft) deep. It is the saltiest body of water on Earth with a salinity of about 30%. This is about 8.6 times greater than the average ocean salinity. It measures 67 kilometres (42 mi) long, up to 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide, and is located on the border between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan, and lies in the Jordan Rift Valley. The main tributary is the Jordan River.
       

I want to go here because I want to float on it without the fear of like an animal biting me or something, lol. And it would be cool to feel weightless

i go there every year…hike around in the yehuda desert and then find my self a nice secluded hot spring…and wait for sunset…