Discover the Dead Sea and tour to UNESCO National Park Masada

Overview

The Dead Sea is one of the unique places шт the world which attracts a lot of people every year and there is a reason for that. The Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth and a place of unbelievable beauty. Masada is a fortress built 2000 years ago by King Herod on top of a rock plateau. We are offering you to visit both this one and only places with our guide!

Itinerary

1. Masada National Park

   Your guide will pick you up from your hotel or from your cruise ship. You will have a drive of about 2.5 hours to have the first stop at Masada National Park. You will get to the top of the mount with a cable car. Masada is an ancient fortress in southern Israel’s Judean Desert. It's on a massive plateau overlooking the Dead Sea. A cable car and a long, winding path climb up to the fortifications, built around 30 B.C. Among the ruins are King Herod's Palace, which sprawls over 3 rock terraces, and a Roman-style bathhouse with mosaic floors. The Masada Museum has archaeological exhibits and recreations of historical scenes.

   · 1 h 30 min· Admission included

2. The rhomboid, flat plateau of Masada measures 600 x 300 m. The casemate wall (two parallel walls with partitions dividing the space between them into rooms), is 1400 m. long and 4 m. wide. It was built along the edge of the plateau, above the steep cliffs, and it had many towers. Herod's Palace is an archaeological site within the fortress of Herodium in the West Bank, about 12 kilometers south of Jerusalem. Herod the Great commissioned a lavish palace to be built between 23 and 15 BCE atop Herodium for all to see. The palace itself consisted of four towers of seven stories, a bathhouse, courtyards, a Roman theatre, banquet rooms, a large walkway (“the course”), as well as extravagant living quarters for himself and guests. Once Herod died and the Great Revolt started, Herodium was abandoned.

   · 2 h

3. Dead Sea

   After that, the driver will take you to the Dead Sea where you will have time to swim at the unique waters. The Dead Sea is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River. Its surface and shores are 430.5 meters below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. In the end, the driver will take you back.

   · 1 h 30 min

Pickup

Pickup included.

What to know before you go

• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Don’t forget your swimming suit and towel
• You will receive confirmation immediately when you book.

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Product code: 224720P371

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