Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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.

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