Hi,
We visited Ein Plutit spring after our short hike in Nahal Zin monks’ cave near by. The spring is near the Dead Sea and part of a system of fault springs which flow along the geological rift.
The spring located along the road that leads to Ein Tamar and Neot HaKikar at the foot the marl rock cliffs. Rest of the springs are not as much as big, clean or organized as this spring and much harder to find.
Those are hot (28 Celsius degrees) salty water springs flows to the Sodom salt flat and are the basis for this unique ecological habitat system with animals such as the Caracal, porcupine, fox and boar and fauna that manage to grow in the salt soil and hot climate.
This salt flat is also a place for the birds passing through Israel as rest point. In the water there fish that will be happy to snack you dead skin off your feet.
The spring is shaded by palm trees (grow up from pits left by visitors) and full of flies (do not worry, at night . People had lived in the area since ancient times – as you can see in the nearby monks’ cave in Nahal Zin.
There is a short hike trail from the spring to the Salt flat ( along a marked trail) that allows you to see the fauna and animals who manage to live here although the heat and high concentration of salt.
Take Care
Gad
The sign near the spring (Hebrew and English)
Ein Plutit spring with the high salt concentration what gives them that color – but there still some fish in there.
The spring, the wood deck, the palm trees and couple of more visitors to the spring (the water are not deep, only 90cm deep)
Pretty big deck for such a spring