7. Sodom & Gomorrah
Following the Dead Sea Highway south from the entrance to Wadi Mujib, you’ll come to the Lot’s Wife pillar rock formation.
There are good views of shorefront salt deposits from the parking area here, so it’s a popular place to visit for photographs.
To see the archaeology site identified as Sodom and Gomorrah by some biblical scholars, keep driving south and take the main turnoff east, which leads to Kerak Castle.
A few kilometers up this switchback road is the sparse Bab Ad-Dhraa site, once a fortified Bronze Age town and then suddenly abandoned.
Archaeologists who worked on the excavations here date the site’s settlement from approximately 3200 BC to 1900 BC.
8. Lisan Peninsula
The southern section of Jordan’s Dead Sea is where the potash industry is based. As you drive through, you can see the evaporation pools where potassium chloride, calcium, and bromine are extracted from the Dead Sea water.
There are various places along the shoreline here where you can get good views of the salt deposits.
On the eastern side of the road, the small settlements are surrounded by fertile farmland where tomatoes and bananas are grown.
If you keep driving south along the Dead Sea Highway, right to the southern end of the sea, you’ll get to the turnoff to Tafilah, which connects up onto the southern section of the King’s Highway, and ends at Petra.
