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Jordanian Dead Sea and Wadi Mujib

Jordan Madaba Dhībān

Jordanian Dead Sea and Wadi Mujib
Photo: لا روسا, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea has resort beaches and public beaches for floating. Nearby, Wadi Mujib is a canyon where you wade and climb up a river between towering walls, through the Siq Trail (April to October).


The Baptism Site (Bethany Beyond the Jordan) is nearby. It's about an hour from Amman.

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