Welcome to day 3! We met our guide for the next 2 days - a guy who has been doing this for years. He seemed very nice and the morning started out well. We went to Masada, a site where King Herod built a winter palace and fort. We learned the whole story of the Israeli rebels and how they dealt with the Roman invasion in 66AD and in AD72. All very interesting and awe-inspiring!
After a lovely lunch back at the hotel (while our guide got a bigger car to hold our luggage tomorrow), we visited an ancient Roman fort and looked at all the water economies. I found a lovely bird to photogragh too. :-)
We moved on to a kibbutz style desert farm set-up. I forget the name but it was more individual owners than the all for one style. The man we met grows peppers, tomatoes, melons and date palms. It was SO interesting and it was neat to meet a local farmer who uses the fertilizer made by Neil's sister company in Israel. The palm tree farm was amazing.
On the way home, we stopped to look at a night view of the Dead Sea Works, which mines potash fertilizer out of the Dead Sea. Our guide told us a lot of interesting stories about how it all came to be. I thought the lights were pretty. LOL All in all, a fabulous day at the Dead Sea - on to Jerusalem tomorrow.
Gail
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