Amman, Jordan

I'm now staying comfortably at my friend's apartment in Amman, Jordan. We went to visit the Dead Sea today, right after my flight landed around noon. Wow, I was floating so high in the water! It was weird, but cool. The Dead Sea is the lowest place on Earth, and also has such a high salt content that nothing can live in it and your body naturally floats really high in its waters. There are rocks encrusted in salt crystals on the shore, and when you swim in the water, it looks and feels almost like oil because it is so salty. I could see Israel on the other side. The rest of the landscape was very dry and deserty. It was amazing, flying through Sharjah in UAE and also flying into Amman - the plane almost looked like it was just going to land in the desert, before it landed on the airstrip. When I flew out of Sharjah I saw the city rising up out of the desert at the edge of the water, the skyscrapers blending in with the color of the sand like it was another planet. Amazing.