The Dead Sea - Ein Bokek, Israel - 1000 Places to See Before You Die on Waymarking.com

Ein Bokek is a hotel and resort district on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tamar Regional Council.

The western shore of the Dead Sea is dotted with organized beaches and bathing areas that provide convenient access to the water. Beside two of the therapeutic beaches, large tourism centers have been established, providing the tourism services. You will find dozens of hotels, hostels and guest houses, restaurants and shopping centers, as well as surprising tourism enterprises that offer a wide range of challenging activities (jeep and bicycle tours, camel tours and Bedouin hospitality, rappelling and more), alongside art and cultural activities (galleries and artists studios).

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

The sea bed has deposits of black mud that is easy to spread on the body and provides the skin with nourishing minerals. The bromide in the air is also beneficial to the body’s systems, thus making the Dead Sea a provider for good health and healing for vacationers from all over the world. In 2009, 1.2 million foreign tourists visited the Israeli side of Dead Sea.

You can experience effortless floating in the Dead Sea's salty water for free at the Ein Bokek public beach (posted coordinates).

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Name of Source Book: Les 1000 Lieux Qu'il Faut Avoir Vus Dans Sa Vie (2006) Page Location in Source Book: 414-415 Type of Waymark: Site, Experience Location of Coordinates: The public beach at the Ein Bokek Resort district Cost of Admission (Parks, Museums, etc.): 0.00 (listed in local currency) List Available Hours, Dates, Season: March, April, May, October and November are cooler time to visit the Dead Sea. The summer months are quite hot (40°C) Official Tourism Website: [Web Link]

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