Following our amazing jeep ride tour of Wadi Rum, we headed down to the port city of Aqaba on the Red Sea. It’s a great, booming city with lots of hotels and resorts and tourists. I walked around a bit and did a bit of shopping and felt totally safe.

After a night and morning in Aqaba, we drove north to the Dead Sea. We stopped once we got to the Sea for some pictures at sunset…so beautiful!

The Dead Sea is wonderful. It’s all built up with resorts all around it, but it’s still pretty cool. I went down this morning and lathered up with the black, smelly mud and let it dry a bit. it starts to burn a little with all the minerals and such in it. Then you head carefully down to the water and rinse it all off. i was trying to get my head down towards the water, but i was so buoyant, i couldn’t. the water just feels weird - thick and almost oily. it smells different also. there’s a haze coming off of it so you can’t really see to the other side very well.

Your skin definitely feels smoother when you get out and rinse off. i’m almost glowing right now.

We have our final dinner tonight and then head to the Amman airport tomorrow morning. This trip has gone by so fast and we packed a ton of activities and food in. I’ve still got a lot to process on this - the people i met, the places i saw, the discussions on the Middle East/politics/religion/culture…good thing i have a 12 hour flight home to think.

I posted a few pics from the Dead Sea beach if you wanna take a look.