Holy Land
Watch a short video “tour” of the Masada ruins (there is no talking but listen for the bird chirps!)
The Holy Land. The Dead Sea, sunk 1300 feet below the level of the Mediterranean, is about fifty miles long and ten feet wide. It has no outlet, and so grows saltier all the time. Herod’s castle, where Salome danced for the head of John the Baptist, hangs dramatically over the brink of the Dead Sea pit, at the top of a 4000-foot wall of rock. From here, Herod could look across the dark chasm and see the towers of Jerusalem, 25 miles away. The Sea of Galilee, to the north, is fresh water. It has an outlet— the Jordan River. (CC BY 2.0 ©2015 Maya-Anais Yataghene)