After some photography, we set off up the Desert Highway to go to Feinan to explore the copper mines. Unfortunately, due to the Arabic only road signs on a certain stretch of road we had driven miles past and so continued to north to Lot’s Cave. Whilst the site was officially closed for restoration and the building of a new museum, we were guided up the partly renewed steps to the shallow rock shelter before heading to the Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea has a number of spectacular gorges that converge into it but once again, we noticed significant changes due to tourism development. The once free hot springs now looks commercialized and other gorges now house dams. As we drove further, the number of hotels and construction sites was unbelievable as Jordan now seeks to market internal tourism with “Amman Beach” and there were far fewer checkpoints than previously.
It took us a while to find our usual car camp, high up in the mountains overlooking the West Bank, still as beautiful as ever. This time, we were not disturbed by Israel and the West Bank fighting.
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