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Photos: Aerial view of Dead Sea salt formations and sinkholes

Spectacular expanse of water in the desert is flanked by cliffs to east and west

Published: October 27, 2021 16:00 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor and with inputs from AFP

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Dead Sea salt formations and sinkholes — Ein Gedi: In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters. A spectacular expanse of water in the desert, flanked by cliffs to east and west, the Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960. Image Credit: AFP

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999155-01-02-(Read-Only) — Further north, a whole tourist complex has turned into a ghost town, disfigured by craters and enclosed in fences. The pavement is gutted, the lampposts overturned, the date plantation abandoned. Image Credit: AFP

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