The Dead Sea and Qumran
The Holy Land: The Dead Sea and Qumran The "Health SPA" Dead Sea We started our pilgrimage with a relaxing stay at the Dead Sea Spa Hotel. The hotel was located along a beach resort area in Jordan, alongside Kempinski, Marriott and other luxury/SPA hotels. After settling into my hotel room, I immediately went for a swim. There was no talk about the Dead Sea as it relate to the Bible at that point, nor information about the Dead Sea, except a warning from a co-pilgrim, Mrs. L, a walking Wikipedia or Britannica Encyclopedia. She told me not to stay in the water for more than three minutes at a time. She had a wealth of information and told me that sunbathing was safe, "The Dead Sea is the only place when one can sunbathe for extended period of time with little or no sunburn because harmful ultraviolet rays are filtered through an extra atmospheric layer and evaporated layer that exist above the sea rather than the thick ozone layer". I was surprised ho...