Young men from Amman waking up and enjoying the mud on the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea at Zara spring. They arrived the night before and slept outside, waking up before dawn to swim in the Dead Sea, soak in the hot springs, and slather themselves in dark mud they dug out of the shallow shore of the Dead Sea. The application of the salty, mineral-rind mud is believed to be good for the skin.