We took some time to relax on the Dead Sea. It contains a healthy dose of salt and minerals and many health spas have opened on its shores. You can often see a person floating on top of the heavy water while reading the morning paper. In fact, covering your body with Dead Sea mud, washing it all off in the sea, and then topping it off with a sulfur bath can be just about as relaxing as it gets!
The shoreline is rapidly disappearing and a bus must now be used to shuttle the tourists from the main bath house to the water's edge.
Modern desalination plants, mineral refineries, and the damming of the Jordan river have caused this catastrophe to the Dead Sea health resorts.
