Dead Sea

Road trippin‘ through Israel to the Dead Sea with a stop at the gorge „Ein Gedi“.

Some interesting facts about the Dead Sea:
- it’s the lowest point on earth
- the water tastes disgusting
- you can sea another country - Jordan
- almost everything is dead
- it was formed by a rift in the earth‘s crust - over 3 million years ago, two of the earth's tectonic plates pulled apart to create the Dead Sea: the African plate on one side, the Arabian plate on the other. The resulting rift used to connect to what is now known as the Mediterranean Sea. Over time, that connection sealed up, leaving the Dead Sea as an inland salt lake.
- it’s not actually the saltiest place on earth, not even in the top threeRead more