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The Dead Sea: Masada, Magic Mud and Pickle Juice

The Dead Sea is a place of riveting natural beauty and murderous weather extremes. Ragged cliffs, arid canyons where dust storms flare and blur the landscape in a palette of opaque cobalt and shadow for hours. Leaving the visitor feeling coated in a layer of finely ground glass. It’s the Lowest. Place. On. Earth. A fact you can’t miss given the signage. It’s also the place humans have somehow inhabited …