Seas and Lakes
- Mediterranean coastal strip
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts
- Dead sea
- The lowest point on the Earth's surface and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world, famous for its buoyancy and medicinal qualities
- Red Sea
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts, popular destination for SCUBA diving and water sports
- Sea of Galilee
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts
- Important Christian holy sites, including Mount of Beatitudes, Bethsaida, Kursi and Tel Hadar, site of the miracle of the feeding of the Gentiles.
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Famous quotes containing the words seas and, seas and/or lakes:
“Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I must down to the seas again for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.”
—John Masefield (1874–1967)
“It was inspiriting to hear the regular dip of the paddles, as if they were our fins or flippers, and to realize that we were at length fairly embarked. We who had felt strangely as stage-passengers and tavern-lodgers were suddenly naturalized there and presented with the freedom of the lakes and woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)