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The Queen's Hamlet

The Queen’s Hamlet is a charming attraction in the park of the Palace of Versailles, built for Marie Antoinette in the 18th century. It consists of a group of rustic cottages and farm buildings, arranged around an artificial lake, that served as a place of leisure and education for the queen and her children. The hamlet was inspired by the naturalistic movement in art and architecture, and by the model farms that were popular among the French aristocracy at the time. The hamlet was also a way for Marie Antoinette to escape the formalities and pressures of the court life, and to enjoy a simpler and more intimate lifestyle. The hamlet was designed by Richard Mique and Hubert Robert, who also modified the landscape of the Petit Trianon, where the hamlet is located. The hamlet has three distinct areas: the reception area, where the queen entertained her guests in the boudoir, the billiard room, and the Queen’s House; the farm area, where the animals and crops were raised and the dair
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The Dead Sea


The minute your feet and legs are in the water you feel as if they are being pushed up and as you go deeper you feel your body become lighter and more buoyant. Just lay back and allow your body to float in the Dead Sea.

This is a relaxing experience, relieving you of stress and allowing your whole body to just rest. Actually, resting and floating in the Dead Sea is the only thing you can do. Because of the buoyancy, you can't swim and because of the salt, you can't dive.

The concentration of salt reaches 34%.

The extremely high concentration of dissolved mineral salts in the water causes the water to be denser than that of plain fresh water. Since our body weight is lighter (less dense) than the density of the water, our body is more buoyant in the Dead Sea, making it easy to float.

Think of it this way, in freshwater our body doesn't float at all, we actually sink. In the ocean, we start feeling buoyancy and we float a bit, in the Dead Sea the water is so dense you float easily even to the point that it's hard to stand on two feet.
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