The Dead Sea: "floating to the navel of the earth".

Legend in ancient times, here is a piece of land. The men in the village have a bad habit, prophet LUT persuaded them to forsake heresy and return to the truth, but they would not listen, still persist in one's old ways, refuses to repent. The God decided to punish them, they secretly enlightenment lute, let he one day carry the family to leave the village, and warned they left behind, no matter what great things don't look back. Lute in accordance with the provisions of the time and his family left the village.

They had not gone far, LUT's wife out of curiosity, they secretly glanced back. At that moment, something, somebody from a village suddenly collapse, appear behind her was a world of waters of the sea, this isThe Dead Sea. Because she disobeyed God's warning, immediately turned to stone, standing in the Dead Sea east hill, overlooking the dead sea back day and night, with the change of times and groundless talk, the world have suffered a bitter hot acid is sweet.

Jordan

The dead sea is located in Jordan andIsraelBetween, 55 kilometers from the capital city of Amman. We drove away from 900 meters above sea level in Amman City, West traveled along the rugged road, after about an hour, came to the sea shore.

On the way from the dead sea is very close, there is a stone, writing above sea level (SEALEVEL) logo, general tourists are here. Here there is a brand, marked toJerusalemThe direction and the nearest place.

When people talk about the dead sea, there is a saying like this: the dead sea is the heart of a Wang tears. According to geologists, the dead sea was connected with the Mediterranean, about 25000000 years ago, because of continental drift motion, changes in the earth's crust, faults subsided with Mediterranean separation, forming an inland salt lake. Now the dead sea and the Mediterranean are also less than 80 kilometers.

Geologists think, the dead sea surrounding rock has a history of 500000000 years. The dead sea is formed, due to climate change in the region, water evaporation, so the water salinity is higher and higher, up to 23% - 25%, up to 33%, is 4 times the general seawater salinity. The dead sea is the world's highest natural water salinity, survival of any plant and biomass energy in such a high salinity and hypoxia water not to. No bird flew over the vast lake, the lake and shore at the junction of the large pebble beach is a layer of salt efflorescence thick, do not see any shadow of life. Reportedly, comes from the Jordan river shrimp, meets the inescapable tide, will in the dead sea was alive very dead, this is be worthy of the name of the dead sea.