The Holy Journey (09): Dead Sea, Jordan

The interesting story of this place is that the Dead Sea was once a city where Prophet Lot SAW was sent to guide the people known for their perverse sexual preference. It is said that the word “sodomy” comes from the name of the city, Sodom (in Bible). By divine intervention, the whole city was rained with fire and sulphur and turned upside down.

Note, reference:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy

Dead Sea indeed... It was freaking hot and humid there... as expected when you visit a salt - water area on a freaking hot day.

It's not exactly a sea, more like a lake with too high salt content.

It was so hot that there were very few visitors. Some men from our group still jumped in though.


Later we were ushered into the souvenir shops where every price when multiplied by 5 deterred me from buying.

Pictures are free, so here goes, some of my favourite items.

Daggers, made of silver and special hard wood. Super expensive.

Pendants. Aren't they just lovely?

That ends my Jordan tour.

And our journey home was - thank God - peaceful and without any flight delay.

My only grudge is that we have to pay for other people's overload charges since they put it as "we travel as a group, so we will share all luggage cost." Bull, mine did not go over the limit, but minority lose. No more Andalusia for me, next time it's Tabung Haji (for the record, such thing has never occurred with Tabung Haji. Everyone pays their own overload charges).