Pictures from Wednesday
Jan. 4th, 2009 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuWith all the craziness, I never posted the pictures from Wednesday.
Starting the day with a "dip" in the Red Sea.
They still have MacDavid restaurants here!
The road north.... and north.... and north....
Tani's class at JCDS is known as "Arava" so we had to take this picture.
At the Dead Sea Works, they use evaporation pools to turn the Dead Sea into piles and piles and piles of salt. And magnesium.
The canal connecting the northern part of the Dead Sea with the southern part. Due to the droughts in recent years, the two are no longer connected naturally; since so much industry depends on the southern part existing, there is this canal. The color of the water is striking.
Ready to ascend Masada.
Looking down on the snake path from the cable car.
Looking back down the cable car lines.
Tani and Alissa pretend to be Jews defending Masada from the Romans. Everything below the black line is original stone; everything above the black line is a reconstruction.
The kids examine the model of Herod's hanging palace.
Looking down on the lower levels of the hanging palace. We tried to go down, but were scared by the fierce winds.
The "hot room" of Herod's bathhouse.
The attack ramp that the Romans built.
In the ancient synagogue atop Masada.
Alissa insisted that we take this picture outside the ancient synagogue.
The Roman attack ramp, from where they breached the gates.
The main Roman siege camp (distant right) and one of their smaller camps (center of the picture), with the attack ramp in the foreground left. The siege encampments surrounding Masada are apparently the best-preserved Roman siege encampments known. Those are original stones, as found by the archaeologists, and visible from the top of the mountain.
Starting the day with a "dip" in the Red Sea.
They still have MacDavid restaurants here!
The road north.... and north.... and north....
Tani's class at JCDS is known as "Arava" so we had to take this picture.
At the Dead Sea Works, they use evaporation pools to turn the Dead Sea into piles and piles and piles of salt. And magnesium.
The canal connecting the northern part of the Dead Sea with the southern part. Due to the droughts in recent years, the two are no longer connected naturally; since so much industry depends on the southern part existing, there is this canal. The color of the water is striking.
Ready to ascend Masada.
Looking down on the snake path from the cable car.
Looking back down the cable car lines.
Tani and Alissa pretend to be Jews defending Masada from the Romans. Everything below the black line is original stone; everything above the black line is a reconstruction.
The kids examine the model of Herod's hanging palace.
Looking down on the lower levels of the hanging palace. We tried to go down, but were scared by the fierce winds.
The "hot room" of Herod's bathhouse.
The attack ramp that the Romans built.
In the ancient synagogue atop Masada.
Alissa insisted that we take this picture outside the ancient synagogue.
The Roman attack ramp, from where they breached the gates.
The main Roman siege camp (distant right) and one of their smaller camps (center of the picture), with the attack ramp in the foreground left. The siege encampments surrounding Masada are apparently the best-preserved Roman siege encampments known. Those are original stones, as found by the archaeologists, and visible from the top of the mountain.