The Dead Sea is the lowest place on the face of the earth. The jagged bluffs of the Judean Desert, surrounded by dry canyons that turn into raging torrents after a cloudburst, rise from the blue waters of the Dead Sea, heavy with salt and oily with minerals.
It was fun to slather myself in natural black mud at a Desd Sea beach. The Dead Sea’s salt concentration is about 34%, making it 10 times more saline than the ocean.