Friday, May 1, 2009

Black at the Dead Sea



While I was in Israel my friends took me to the Dead Sea. The water is so salty that no organisms can live in it. Hence the name. You can get in the Dead Sea but you can't swim in it. If you try to swim you just flip over onto your back. You just sit there like you are in an inner tube but there is no inner tube. You don't even have to tread water. When you make the trip there it is traditional to smear black mud from the shore all over your body and let it dry before you wash it off. Basically a body mud mask. Just after I washed the mud off of me an Arab boy threw some rocks then stuck his tongue out at me. Maybe I should have left it on.

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