Hiking the Negev

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March 29th 2011

Published: March 29th 2011

On Wednesday March 23rd I hiked a crater...the biggest crater on land. It's name is Mitzpe Ramon. We came across rocks black as coal and red as fire. I think the red rocks had iron in them. We even saw purple rocks. There was interesting flora and fauna. I saw this plant that looked like spiky grapes and these birds that looked like quails. It was amazing to see that anything could live or grow... Read Full Entry

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View from above

The Crater

View from above

The crater

Taking a break

We hiked about 8 milles.

Many rock formations at the bottom of the crater

This black rock was very interesting.

Blooms!

I could not believe we would see something flowering in the desert! This was at the bottom if the crater.

Still hiking

Ibex

I saw this ibex eat plastic from a garbage can when we climbed back to the top.

Ein Avdat

This was from our hike through the Ein Avdat National Park

Ein Avdat

They had cool sculptures showing what life was like here 3000 years ago.

Ein Avdat

This was one of the locations that they fiilmed Jesus Christ Superstar. They used these ruins to be Jerusalem.

Ein Avdat

from one of twp Byzantine churches.

Ein Avdat

from one of the churches

Ein Avdat

The city had caves that they dug out, too.

Avdat Riuins

Avdat Ruins

29th March 2011

Cathy A
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I tried to read the Greek on the picture of Ein Avdat. It is ancient Greek and I could sound out but have no idea what the words say. You have some very nice pictures.

29th March 2011

Sally
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Hi, Abby! I am really enjoying reading your blog and seeing the pictures of so many historical and interesting places in Israel. Thank you for taking the time to share them.

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