Entering Masada |
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A bronze casting of Masada |
The way up |
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The Japanese was all over the place |
We are going up |
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A great view comes with the ride. You can see the roman camps down there |
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A water storage |
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They stored millions of liter of water in 12 caves |
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Some of the water collection system |
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Some of the original decorations |
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This is what it was like when they found it |
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Quite a view from the top |
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A sauna |
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One can also walk up as he does but it takes a few hrs |
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Birre our guide, he greew up in Sweeden and moved to Israel in 73 |
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The hill that the Romans build to get in to Masada |
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This hole was used to wash their feet |
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This is the undercarriage to the ram that they used making the movie about Masada |
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They found the remains of a few bodies in this hill |
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Catapult stones |
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