The water felt heavy and thick, strange and slimy. It felt weird to move so slowly, maybe like outerspace.
Many people sub- merge themselves in the mud baths, which is reputed to be theraputic.
So I slathered some mud on, waited till it dried crackly hard and jumped in the Dead Sea to rinse it off getting covered in salt. I sound like a human receipe. In Madaba I viewed the oldest surviving original map of the Holy Land. The color- ful map looks eerily new today because it was buried under sand. As I stood at Moses' tomb, a windswept hill at Mount Nebo, all of these sites gave me chills, made me reflective of humanities' past and left me with a feeling of awe and humility.