Blogs from Makhtesh Ramon, South District, Israel, Middle East
Makhtesh Ramon and Avdat
Published: April 2nd 2011Middle East » Israel » South District » Makhtesh Ramon
March 30th 2011
The Great Crater (Makhtesh Ramon). The other day, we went to the great crater, Makhetsh Ramon. It was amazing how many types of plants and rocks there were! Walking through a dried wadi, I saw purple rocks, sand, and bright red rocks, too. There were huge piles of black rocks and little white flowers that grew on a bush that smelled like vanilla! There was a lot of wildlife. We saw a quail like creatures. We also saw three friendly Ibex! There was a big one with huge horns, and two little ones. They did not mind us, and we could follow them and get within a close distance to them. We could have touched them if we wanted to. (We didn't, though.) The great crater is the largest crater in the world on land! Some ... read more
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 in land so rocky and dry. We saw more ibex...only these ibex were very social, and were eating plastic from a garbage can. Its odd how some parts of Israel are green and tropical, and other parts look like mars. Then on Saturday we climbed at Ein Avdat National Park. It was rocky and steep - the kind of thing an ... read more
