Amman, Jordan

After Petra we went up to Amman to stay with Peter and see another city.

When we first got to Amman we went to find dinner.

Sleeping in Peter's apartment...people everywhere

Ampithetar in Amman

Mosque

Jordanian flag
View from the top of the Ampithetar

Petra, Jordan

Petra, Jordan

We went there for Friday and to Amman on Saturday.



Boarder crossing in Eilat

in No man's land between Israel and Jordan

Monastary

Group shot in front of the Monastary

Ampithetar

Some goats wondering the parameters that we saw on the way to the monastary. Eventually our paths crossed and we walked through the goats.

Some modern day things (aka a car) mixed with the ancient surroundings.

Treasury

Eilat

Eilat---only there for a night before going to Jordan

View while approaching city

Walking around at night

I had never seen so many frozen slushie drink choices.

Mitspe Ramon

Mitspe Ramon

Makhtesh Ramon is a huge crater in the town.....

Biriya Forest & Rosh Pina

Went to Ronni's house for another weekend and on Saturday she showed us around a few areas in the North.

Biriya Forest...I do not know why but I really the pictures from this view point....

Rosh Pina...a really cute (i think random) town

One of my favorite pictures from my whole trip. Some old guys shop who makes leather shoes and delivers them around the world...if only they did not cost so much. (picture of some of his shoes below)

Chocolates made scratch at a little cafe we stopped in at.

Kinnert in the view.

Ein Gedi-2nd trip

The day after the dead sea and Masada we all went hiking in Ein Gedi. These pictures are from the hike for the hidden waterfall.

Desert and swampy forest areas all in the same area.

Hidden waterfall.

Dead Sea

After Masada we caught a taxi over to Ein Gedi hostel where we could also go to the Dead Sea.

Dead Sea

Rocks covered in salt

Part of the group covered in the Dead Sea mud

Alyssa and I trying to float on our sides

Masada

About half the MIT students that are in Israel, met up to travel to Masada, Dead Sea and Ein Gedi all in one weekend. Here is the first part of our trip.

Bedowin's living corridors. I saw a lot of this throughout the desert on the way to Masada.

Masada-the best thing for Masada is to get there the night before, start hiking up Masada at 4am and get to the top before sun rise. Enjoy the sun rise over the dead sea while sitting on ruins. After the sun is up, enjoy walking around all the ruins and hike back down for a huge well deserved breakfast.



Area infront of our hostel that we walked through the night before we hiked up Masada.

Waiting for the gate to open at 4:15am


Sun starting to rise over the dead sea

Us chilling watching the sun rise.

Some of the ruins. There were so many.

Mountains that surround the othersie of Masada...the side that does not look over the dead sea.

A view of our hostel from the top of Masada. Where we started our hike at 4:20am.

In a huge hole in the ground that used to store the water for the citizens of Masada.