Dead Sea - Day 3

I neglected to finish blogging about our first Dead Sea trip (back in January), so I’ll do a quick picture tour to close it out. Here is the view from our hotel in En Bokek looking out over the Dead Sea on our last day.

Another view—those are the Jordanian mountains on the East side of the Dead Sea.

For some reason I like to take pictures of street signs. Perhaps because it “proves” we were there. There is also something about seeing a street sign to Biblical places such as Be’er Sheva (sheva is “7” in Hebrew, can you guess what be’er is?...check your Bible’s reference guide under “Beersheeba”).

This is “Wadi David” at En Gedi, where David hid from King Saul.

1 Samuel 24:1 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.”

It is on one of the nearby caves that David spared Saul’s life by only cutting a corner of his robe. En Gedi is an Oasis in the hot & dry desert, with natural (fresh) spring water which obviously would've helped sustain David.

Here is the Dead Sea shoreline and a perhaps a sink hole.

And here is an Ibex. They wander around near the entrance of En Gedi National Park--probably because people feed them. It had begun to rain, so we moved on.

This last one reminds me something I saw on my cousin Leanna’s Facebook page imploring readers…DON’T LITTER!