Dead sea

Originally, Friday was the only free day we had, so we were facing difficult dilemma: Dead sea or City of Petra? But during our Thursday's meeting we managed to cancel the closing part, which made it possible to visit the Dead sea in the afternoon!
The colleagues from university were so generous that they provided us with a car, driver and a guide.

Highways are generally in a very good shape in the whole country, so our journey to the coast of Dead sea was fast and comfortable, it took 1,5 hours.

Hot weather
It was the first time in Jordan we experienced what "hot" weather really means, since mornings were always pleasantly windy, middays were pretty cold in air-conditioned board rooms (even 16°C!!, we needed a defrosting machine afterwards!) and evenings were just nice with warm sunsets. Dead sea was quite different: 40°C all the time, everywhere.
Because we didn't know in the morning that we were going (we decided during the day after cancelling the closing session...) we were dressed in formal clothes and we didn't have swimming suits, we had to buy ones on our way:)

Covered with well-known mud with sanative effects

Floating: enjoying the power of salt
The salt was indeed fairly aggressive and my sensitive skin didn't get on well with second round of Dead sea mud within 24 hours (see the post about Turkish bath) as well, so I didn't stay for a long time, but it was amazingl! You could see visible salt traces leading from showers back to the sea.