We got up and 8 and after the breakfast went to the nearby city Makaba to visited Orthodox church and see the famous mosaic map of the promised land. The mosaic map was not so impressive. We went back to Mt. Nebo to see Mohammed and the church. He was happy to see us and gave us a nice tour in the museum and church. I made a picture of Mohammed and the olive tree planted by the Jan Paul II. He told us that he waters the tree every day. I made few more pictures of him and Agnieszka and before we left I printed one for him. He was very happy and surprised how it was possible. We gave him our best regards and drowe down the jordan wally to see the place where the John the Baptist baptized Jesus. It was less than 15 km form the Mt. Nebo and easy to find. We had to pay 5 JD for the bus and the tour guide. Our tour guide told us that this place is military zone and it was open to public after the peace treaty with Israel in 1994. He showed us the remains of 3 small churches and we visited the Jordan river which separates Jordan and Israel. The river was very small less then 10 m wide. Most of the water from the river is taken for irrigation. This is the reason why the water in the Dad see lowers 1 m a year and gets more salty. After the 2 hour visit to this biblical site we went to see and taste the very salty Dad sea. We found the Amman beach with 5 JD admissions. Since we had our owń shower we decided to find some another place. Since the Dead see is 400 m under the sea level the climate is very worm. The water temperature was around 20 and it was very strange feeling floating in the water which has 30 of salt. It was very nice and we kept floating until the sunset. We stayed over night at the parking lot near the Amman beach.
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