Site-Seeing: The Land of Lot

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Most travelers to Jordan have visited the famous Nabatean city of Petra or the dune-swept, otherworldly landscape of Wadi Rum, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. But traveling along on the picturesque Dead Sea Highway between Amman and Petra, few notice the small farming town known as Ghor al-Safi. This fertile plain of vegetable fields and palm groves, which owes its prosperity to the Wadi al-Hasa (the biblical Zered River) that flows from the rugged mountains of the eastern Jordanian highlands, is an area of biblical legend, historic sites, spectacular scenery, and friendly people. Ghor al-Safi is perhaps most famous for […]

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Footnotes

1. Konstantinos Politis, “Death at the Dead Sea,” BAR, March/April 2012.

2. Konstantinos Politis, “Where Lot’s Daughters Seduced Their Father,” BAR, January/February 2004.

3. Anthony J. Saldarini, “Babatha’s Story,” BAR, March/April 1998.