  
Hammamat Ma'in
Hammamat Ma'in is another
favored spot, with a hot waterfall, thermal springs, and a full
complement of resort facilities.
Close by are two sites linked by tradition to Herod the Great. One is the palace at Makawer
(machaerus), where Salome
traditionally danced, and where John the Baptist was beheaded; now Hamamat Ma'in, the thermal
mineral springs, where Herod
was said to have bathed in its medicinal water, where people have come
for thermal treatments or simply to enjoy a hot soak, since the
days of
Rome. |