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The Mövenpick Dead Sea Spa and Resort is a luxury resort hotel on the shore of the Dead Sea, the lowest location on Earth. It was opened in 1999 by Zara Investment Holding, Jordan's largest operator of five-star hotels. Condé Nast has classified it as the best resort in Jordan and one of the best in the Middle East for several years. [1]
The Jordan River or River Jordan (Arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (Arabic: نهر الشريعة), is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea – It is the lowest point on earth, 402 metres (1,319 ft) below sea level, [3] and becomes 1 meter lower each year. It is the only depository of River Jordan and was part of the biblical kingdoms of Midianites and later the Moabites. The Dead Sea area is home to numerous world-class resorts such as the Kempinski, Mövenpick and ...
Bik'at Hayarden A 2003 satellite image of the region showing the Jordan Rift Valley. The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley (Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן Bīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr), [citation needed] is an elongated endorheic basin located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, Palestine.
The first hotel was built in 1960. In 2000, 14 hotels were operating in Ein Bokek, offering various types of spas and Dead Sea health treatments. [2] As of 2018, Ein Bokek is set to undergo significant development with the Dead Sea Valley Tourism Complex, designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie. The project will include a convention center ...
In Israel the Rift Valley is dominated by the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee (an important freshwater source also known as Lake Tiberias and Lake Kinneret), and the Dead Sea. [19] The Jordan, Israel's largest river (322 kilometers (200 mi)), originates in the Dan, Baniyas, and Hasbani rivers near Mount Hermon in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and ...
Satellite photograph, showing the location of the Dead Sea east of the Mediterranean Sea. The Dead Sea is a salt lake is bordered by Jordan to the east and Palestine's Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west. [5] [6] It is an endorheic lake, meaning there are no outlet streams. The Dead Sea lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic ...
This is a list of rivers of Israel. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Nahal (Hebrew, wiktionary:נחל) and Wadi (Arabic) commonly translate to Stream, more seldom River. Both words, when used as common nouns, also signify '(stream/river) valley'.