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After that, lunch and a mini-lecture at Qumran, the headquarters of the Dead Sea sect and the place, roughly, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.<\/p>\n
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And then most of the group went floating in the Dead Sea itself.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Jericho, Palestine<\/p>\n
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