Dead Sea

The Dead Sea sounded scary at first. We thought it meant there were a lot of accidents there involving death. The reason why it was called the Dead Sea is because there aren't many living organisms in the water. It is connected to the Indian ocean which makes it too salty to grow anything or live in. We all jumped in, not afraid because we heard there weren't any fishes in there even though it's 422 meters below sea level. To our surprise, we floated!!! The water was really dense with all the salt that nothing could live there. I had this crazy idea to "walk on the water" like Jesus. Well...I fail... :( Lol. I decided not to stay in the water for too long because it might do damage to my skin. We saw people rubbing the sea's mud on themselves; which we thought was really...weird and dirty. Abraham says they do that because they believe it had special healing or cosmetic use. I would expect to see some farms around so we went looking for a place to visit & chat with people. We had to ride the caravan for a couple miles to finally reach a restaurant; where we had a drink and sandwiches. Ciera asked them why they don't take advantage of the sea and grow crops to make money. They told us the water would kill all the crop and ruin the soil because there was way too much salt in it.