Crowne Plaza Dead Sea Hotel -  The Most Indulgent hotel at the Dead Sea. At the lowest place on Earth, right at the water front with its own private beach, the Crowne Plaza Dead Sea hotel is waiting to pamper you at the highest level possible. The Dead Sea Crowne Plaza is an elegant vacation spot, offering an ideal vacation at the heart of the desert. At the center of the wild ancient landscape, nature has created a rare, soothing blend of sea and desert. The hotel fits ideally into its unique natural surrounding, rewarding guests with all the essentials required for a healthy body and soul including a spa that will spoil you with dozens of various treatments, yoga and shiatsu classes, mud festivals on the beach and workshops of breathing, stretching and Reiki for the parents.

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The Dead Sea

Thanks to its unique elements of nature, life and quality of life at the Dead Sea is unlike any other place in the world. People of all countries and of all wakes of society make frequent "health and well being pilgrimages" to this region. The climate and the mineral qualities are major features in the variety of its therapeutic qualities, of its beauty treatments and of the menu of bodily pleasures to choose from.

The Deas Sea is sunny 330 days a year, and is the only place on the globe where the crust of planet Earth recedes to an "in-depth low" of minus 416 meters below sea level.

Millenia of History- Most visitors to the Dead Sea do not look back upon its prehistory and do therefore not realize that its unique landscape was created (together with the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River) by the great Syrian-African geological rift dated 1.64 million years ago. In more contemporary times, many spectacular chapters of history have been played out within a few kilometres from your hotel area. One can virtually walk 4,000 years back into the Bible era and return within an hour or two.

For more on the Dead Sea: http://www.deadsea.co.il

Attractions

Attractions in the Dead Sea region include ancient monuments and historical sites, including Masada, the mountaintop fortress that was the scene of a bloody siege in which a small group of Jews, fighting an army of several thousand Romans, chose to take their own lives rather than become slaves to the Roman captors; King Herod's Northern three-tiered palace that was built as a refuge for his family; the Qumran Caves, famous for being the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, were discovered between the years 1947 and 1956.

Nature preserves, springs and streams, waterfalls in the midst of the desert, wildlife and human-nature coexistence are all part of this remarkable region. Notable are the Ein-Gedi Nature Reserve, a 6,250-acre park filled with marked hiking routes and more challenging trails leading to the top of the 400-meter-high Ha'etakim Cliff, which spans the entire length of the Dead Sea; Kibbutz Ein-Gedi's remarkable park of Cacti and Succulent plants; and the Nachal David nature reserve with its streams, pools and waterfalls.