Dead Sea - Gallery

Gallery

  • Israeli highway beside the Dead Sea

  • Jordanian highway along the Dead Sea coast

  • Twisty coastline

  • Coastline (from Israel)

  • A rough Dead Sea, with salt deposits on cliffs

  • Dead Sea northern coast (Jordan)

  • Located in Jordan, this sign diagrams the topography of Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea.

  • Dead Sea at dawn (from Sodom mountain, Israel)

  • Dead Sea at dusk (from Suwayma, Jordan)

  • Dead Sea at dusk (from Mövenpick Resort Dead Sea, Jordan)

  • A tourist demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity

  • Many people believe that the mud of the Dead Sea has special healing and cosmetic uses.

  • Sinkholes at Mineral Beach

  • Cobble encrusted with halite evaporated from the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi

  • Dead Sea from Masada

  • Line painted in 1900 (at top of image) by Robert A.S. Macalister of the Palestine Exploration Fund showing the level of the Dead Sea

  • The Dead Sea region

  • Dead Sea seen from Jordan

  • Panorama of the Dead Sea from Masada, facing northeast. The area between the two is visible, as well as Jordan in the background.

Read more about this topic:  Dead Sea

Famous quotes containing the word gallery:

    “I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

    “To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)