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Seventh day out May 7 th
Israel - through the desert to Massada 29 c
06.50 am Rise and shine, looking across Jerusalem city and just below you can see maybe some old digs happening below us.
08.37am Heading out of town you see the desert settlements and then after that the Beduwin Tribe camps which these tin shacks must be hot in this heat.
08.43 am The Beduwin don't really have rose bush front gardens.
08.57 The "dates" give an oasis feel in the desert and the foreign graffitti dosen't have the same effect when you can't read the words.
08.59 Without the date plantations it would be arid and now coming up to the caves where the dead sea scrolls were found by a young lad after a earth tremor this century.
09.05 Zoom in on the caves and a beach of the "Dead Sea" we were following around.
09.23 Ibex grazing through the desert and here we are at "Ahava" kubbuzts where they make the famous creams and such which is exported to all the world from here.
10.12 Now leaving Ahava and heading to Massada and the old fortress (what a view).
10.51 Looking up the cable car and then down the hill (what a long way down,oooo!!!).
10.58 On top there are only the rock wall outlines of buildings and the external walls, as all the wooden building were burnt after been conquered. There is still quite a few stone buildings around the outer sides of the moutain.
11.02 Looking down from the breached wall where the big earthern channel was built by the Romans to top, so they could conquer the christians on the mountain Massada.
11.17 Restored walls and a settling pool system to recycle and store their water.
11.36 Inside the Roman bath and mines under ground where they dug out rock for their buidings, then later to hold water below ground.
11.47 Now the walk back to the cable car and the ride to the bottom.(big drop from here)
14.02 Loooking down at the Dead Sea beach where the girls went for a high floating swim.
15.20 These Beduwin deserved a few more photos.
15.23 Then back to the settlements in a dust storm but it soon cleared.
15.30 We when straight through the chech point but others weren't so lucky, which would mean a resonable delay after being searched inside and out.
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Comments:
Philip: We travelled through the arid hills to the Dead Sea and Massada which must have been a hard place to live for so long.
Donna: Lucy was sick and Rebecca felt sick but decided to go to Masada. Lucy stayed home which turned out to be the best thing. It was so arid out in the dessert I don’t know how John the Baptist lived out there, Lazarus little town was there also. We went passed Jericho and the Dead Sea was so green and every thing else was arid except date palm plantations. I also saw the Quorum cave where the Dead Sea scrolls were in. We went to the Ahava factory and passed En Gedi. Masada was amazing. It so starkly arid but Herod had a palace and Jewish refugees lived up there eating pigeons and garden vegies until the Romans built the ramp and Abraham must have had a hard time after the Sodom got blown up. I have never seen such stony arid hills. Rebecca was so sick, I swam in the Dead Sea, it is very thick and buoyant, When we got home I was sick also and we had to call the doctor, he gave us a needle and parted with 500 dollars, We didn’t think we were going to make it to the flight next morning as we were so crook but we did. Thank God a 1000’s times.
Rebecca: Today we had a tour to Massada and the Dead Sea, Lucy however was feeling sick and I threw up. Lucy stayed back but I still went. We saw the place where the Essenes lived and the cave of where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. We went to the AHAVA factory, and I started to feel sick and threw up we continued our tour to the Dead Sea. We finally returned to our Hotel where Mum started to get sick and so we called the Doctor who came to our Hotel and gave us a shot to stop throwing up, later that night Dad got sick.
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