Dead Sea - Gallery

Gallery

• Israeli highway beside the Dead Sea

• Jordanian highway along the Dead Sea coast

• Twisty coastline

• Coastline (from Israel)

• A rough Dead Sea, with salt deposits on cliffs

• Dead Sea northern coast (Jordan)

• Located in Jordan, this sign diagrams the topography of Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea.

• Dead Sea at dawn (from Sodom mountain, Israel)

• Dead Sea at dusk (from Suwayma, Jordan)

• Dead Sea at dusk (from Mövenpick Resort Dead Sea, Jordan)

• A tourist demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity

• Many people believe that the mud of the Dead Sea has special healing and cosmetic uses.

• Sinkholes at Mineral Beach

• Cobble encrusted with halite evaporated from the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi

• Dead Sea from Masada

• Line painted in 1900 (at top of image) by Robert A.S. Macalister of the Palestine Exploration Fund showing the level of the Dead Sea

• The Dead Sea region

• Dead Sea seen from Jordan

• Panorama of the Dead Sea from Masada, facing northeast. The area between the two is visible, as well as Jordan in the background.