The Dead Sea

Salman Amin
3 min readAug 21, 2020

The Dead Sea is most attractive natural wonder in the world

Human-made wonders can be counted in the world, but the wonders of nature are innumerable. The Dead Sea is one of those wonders of nature. In this article, I try to highlight all characteristics of the Dead Sea. So, continue reading with us.

Without confusion, the world’s most amazing plus interesting place, the Jordan Rift Valley is a dramatic, beautiful scene, which at the Dead Sea, is over 400m (1,312 ft.) down sea level. The minimum point on the face of the earth, this vast area of water receives several approaching rivers, along with the River Jordan. Once the waters ability the Dead Sea they are land-locked and have regular to go, so they evaporate, escape behind a dense, rich, cocktail of salts and hardware that supply industry, agriculture, and medicine with some of its great products.

The Dead Sea is naturally belted by mountains to the east and the rotation hills of Jerusalem to the west, giving it an about another level of worldly beauty. Although sparsely colonize and almost quiet now, the area is accepted to have been home to five Biblical cities: Sodom, Gomorrah, Adman, Zebouin, and Zoar (Bela).

One of the most sensational natural and spiritual murals in the world, the Jordanian east coast of the Dead Sea has expanded into a major hub of both holy and health & wellness travel in the region. A series of good roads, nice hotels with spa and fitness facilities, as well as archaeological and eye touching natural views make this region as enticing to today’s international tourists.

Attractive Facts about The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is 377 m (1,237 ft) deep, building it the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. A hypersaline lake is a landlocked body of water that involves significant absorption of sodium chloride or other azoic salts, with saline levels beat that of ocean water.

The Dead Sea’s high salt concentration means that people can freely float in the Dead Sea due to common buoyancy. So, if you are not a good swimmer don’t worry the Dead Sea is the best swimming point for you.

The Dead Sea is 67 km (42 mi) lengthy and 18 km (11 mi) wide at its widest stop. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley and its main shoot is the Jordan River.

The dominant attraction at the Dead Sea is the naturally warm, softening, super salty water itself — some ten times saltier than seawater, and rich in chloride salts of magnesium, sodium, potassium, bromine and a few others.

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The Dead Sea Has No Fish

There are no fish or any type of swimming, squirming animal living in or near the water. There are, after all, several types of bacteria and one type of algae that have become too harsh life in the waters of the Dead Sea. What you will see on the shores of the Sea is white, crystals of salt shelter everything.

The Dead-Sea-Water Therapy

The 33.7% saltiness is curative in many ways. It is accept taking a dip in the waters can be quite active in soothing infections like diabetes, rheumatism, psoriasis, etc. Moreover, the minerals establish in and around the lake are studied to be present in the human body commonly, making it easy for the body to take in its therapeutic goodness completely. It is better not to swallow the saltwater though, as it is known to cause drown due to hike of the larynx.

How Salty is The Dead Sea?

If you have sipped the Dead Sea waters, you know — it does not sip salty at all! It tastes salty. Scientists considered that the 340 grams of salt per liter of water can make the quick fix so salty that the sensation amazes the mind to think that it’s salty.

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Salman Amin

Reading other’s thoughts and Writing my thoughts is my passion. Why? Because it gets me in touch with the writer’s community. That’s my goal, to touch hearts…