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Bird watching Southern Israel in spring needs no introduction. Eilat and the surrounding areas are known worldwide as one, if not the best, Western Palaearctic destination for birders. The dramatic outline of the Rift Valley serves as a corridor for millions of migrants every season.

A unique combination of natural resources having therapeutic effects has turned the Dead Sea area into a healing center unparalleled anywhere else on the face of the earth.The salty seawater, with its unusually high concentration of minerals, the natural hot springs rich in minerals and sulphur, and the extraordinary climatic conditions, including uniquely filtered sun rays and an oxygen-rich dry air, due to the high barometric pressure prevailing here in the lowest spot on earth (417 meters below sea level), a therapeutic black mud – all combine in providing the basis for the successful effect of the Dead Sea therapies.