Dead Sea Tour from Aqaba Port - Private Shore Excursion

Your tour manager meets you at the cruise exit door in Aqaba Port, and you'll travel by private air-conditioned vehicle for around two and a half hours north to the Dead Sea.

At more than 400 metres below sea level, this is the lowest point on the surface of the earth. The water carries a salt and mineral concentration roughly ten times that of the ocean — high enough that nothing lives in it, which is where the name comes from, and high enough that sinking simply isn't possible.

You'll have leisure time at the shore to float, which is a genuinely strange sensation the first time. The dark mineral mud along the water's edge has been used for skin treatments since antiquity, and the site has functioned as a spa destination for well over two thousand years.

A few things worth knowing before you get in: the water stings any cut or shave, so avoid shaving that morning. Keep it away from your eyes. And rinse thoroughly in fresh water afterwards, or the salt crust stays with you.

After your time at the shore, you'll be driven back to your ship in Aqaba Port.

Around nine hours in total, with your own vehicle and driver throughout.