The Sanctuary of Agios Lot

We visited the Sanctuary of Lot as part of our eleven days tour of Jordan. We had originally planned to stop there on our way to the southern part of the country, but we would have failed to get there before dusk on the fixed day, so we skipped it and took it in on our return back to the north. It is located no more than one km away from the main Dead Sea road, next to the small road entering the village of Safi from the north. It is actually very easy to find it: it is quite surprising to see road signs pointing to this small place and to the “Museum of the Lowest Place on Earth”, as far away as about 100 km from it. The museum is a new white circular building, where we entered to ask for information.

Having been told that the sanctuary was closed (!!!) for restoration, we tried to think how to get in anyway, noticing only then a small unsurfaced road turning left just before the museum and climbing uphill a few hundreds of meters to the sanctuary entrance. Wrongly assuming there would be some locked gate on that road and hoping to pass unnoticed, we climbed up the very steep slope of the hill from another point, away from the museum. We were fortunate enough to arrive at the entrance just in time to stumble upon a big group of English tourists easily reaching it by their bus on …