OPEN PITS. “Better not walk any farther,” he warns. “The ground could swallow us whole.” Up and down the Dead Sea, on the Jordanian and Israeli coasts, the shoreline is pockmarked by these ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...