Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Last of Masada

Herod's palace way up there on the face of the Masada hill can be imagined pretty well with the ruins that are excavated. 


This display shows how the adjacent hills were engineered to bring rainwater to the Masada cisterns.  You could pour a  pitcher of water over the display and the water channeled down those paths along the hillside into the little cistern.  Amazing.

I kept taking photos of "nothing" because it was so barren and rocky.




Tourists walking around the top of the mountain

We walked down many steps to get to the bottom of this huge cistern.

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