Before I go on with the rest of this post, I need to tell you about this awesome incident which happened on the boardwalks of Eilat last week. As myself, Eric, and Cam were exploring the area, we came across a band playing traditional Jewish music on keyboards over and over with no stop, and a circle of Orthodox men dancing around and clapping. As we stood their watching them, they grabbed our hands and pulled us in. To make a long story short, we dancing, pranced, and clapped with Orthodox Jewish men in a circle for about 20 minutes. You have no idea how happy I was.
So just as I promised you earlier here are a few of my pictures from my trip to the Negev last week.
This is a well at the site of ancient Beer-Sheva. Its not the well that Abraham dug in making a covenant with Abimelech, but its similar.
Cam, Eric, and I are standing atop a facsimile of the altar which was found at Beer-Sheva. We're wearing hardhats because we're hard at work.
This is the holy of holies at the high place in Arad.
Some of us men and Adventure Bill standing at the top of the Nahal Zin after climbing out of the canyon.
The sun behind the clouds was beginning to drop when we were at the ruins of Avdat.
A cloudy sunset at Mactesh Ramon. You can somewhat see the dropoff of the cliff.
Since the Wilderness of Paran is so large and desolate, the military uses it to test and train with tanks, artillery, and bombs. They do a pretty good job of letting you know that, but I like to live dangerously.
The sunrise from atop Masada.
These are some columns, frescos, and mosaics remaining from Herod's palace on the north end of Masada.
Yeah, I climbed that.
One of the caves at Qumran. I believe nearly half of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in this particular one.
This is a model of the tabernacle that we visited.
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