Nov 10: We started the day with a baptismal in the Jordan river. For all of us the baptism symbolized a new chapter in our spiritual walks. Next places were Gideons Spring and Gideon Cave(Judges 6-7), Qumran (discovery of dead sea scrolls), and En Gedi where David confronted King Saul (Samual 24:1-17). En Gedi was also a likely spot for inspiring many of King David’s Psalms such as Psalm 57. After arriving at Le Meridien Dead Sea hotel, we walked to the Dead Sea and took a float in it. Floating is easy to do and you cannot sink. The Dead Sea is very clean and the salt and minerals actually help your skin – my skin felt like silk. The Dead Sea is also at the lowest point on earth and is surrounded by mountains. The mountains help block the ultraviolet rays from the sun so you could spend the whole day in the sun and not get sunburned. So we started the day with a renewal in the Jordan River and ended it with a cleansing in the Dead Sea. The Le Meridien hotel was the most luxurious hotel of our trip. The Le Meridien Dead Sea hotel is a resort hotel which is a vacation spot itself.
The next morning, we took a cable car up the mountain to Masada, fortress of King Herod the Great. We saw lots of storehouses and homes of the Jewish who had fought the Romans. The views from the Masada are spectacular. We then visited the Masada Museum where we saw many artifacts from Masada.
Dead Sea region pictures
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