A private tub at the end of the earth

By Nina Karnikowski
Updated November 7 2017 - 12:28pm, first published 12:19pm

We've only been in Israel's Arava desert for two hours and already we feel as though we've performed a great disappearing act. Immersed in a cool freshwater tub outside our small adobe cabin, surrounded by vast areas of empty yellow land that so starkly contrast the buzzing streets of Tel Aviv from where we've just come, we can neither see nor hear evidence of any other living being.

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