The Dead Sea 
Behind us, the world's saltiest body of water. The Dead Sea has black mud for much of its floor that purportedly contains the untold secrets of beauty. After the initial eewness, we were eagerly plastering the black stuff all over us and each other. Then we assumed Greek statuelike personalities much like that which we do not depict above. 30 minutes later when the cake dried up, we washed it off and found ourselves with brand new incredibly smooth skins! I wondered if it was the effect of salt clinging to the skin and retaining some of the water via concentration potential, producing the illusion of silky skin. But since I was holidaying, I accepted the tourist truth of it all. My only regret was not having brought the Straits Times to the Dead Sea and reading the news while afloat on it. My word of caution is that inevitably, over-enthusiasm would get water in the eyes and mouth. That'd leave you tearing furiously and make plain water taste unbelievably sweet. The water contains no living organisms because the concentration of the salt would plasmolyse any living cell. I didn't, but I bet it'd hurt to pee in it. 

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