Jordan and the Dead Sea

by Sarah Mahoney

Given that the Dead Sea is the only spa destination with biblical billing, it gets overlooked. (And misrepresented: Since the Dead Sea is fed only by the Jordan River, it’s technically a lake.) But the opening of the Middle East’s largest spa here—Jordan’s 33,000-square-foot Anantara Spa at the Kempinski Hotel Ishtar—along with two other outsize yet very good Westerner-friendly ones, is raising the country’s spa profile. The resorts share what’s still a fairly undeveloped coastline, along with a passion for salt scrubs and mud wraps, so there are plenty of good reasons to sink to the lowest point on earth, 1,400 feet below sea level, to be exact. Another reason is that the Dead Sea is shrinking at a rate of about three feet a year. “Get it while you can,” says Kempinski’s marketing manager, Ashraf Abul Huda.

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