Day eight in Israel.

Day eight. We were on the bus at 7:30 a.m. Today we would leave the Youth Hostel at Beer Sheva and stay over night at a Youth Hostel in Arad. It was a very full day again, we went to Tel Beer Sheva, Tel Arad, Nahol Zin where we went on a very nice walk through it and Mizpe Ramon. It was very fun and interesting day.


This is dad by a horned altar at the ancient site of Tel Beer Sheva.

Dad and a few other guys from our group sitting where the Elders would sit, just inside the gate. We are at Tel Arad.

This is me at Tel Arad. At nearly all of the ancient sites we went to there was always a big water cistern that we could go into and look around. So this is me going into one.

The ruins at Tel Arad.

The rest of these photos are at Nahol Zin, which is biblically The Wilderness of Zin. We took an hour walk through it and then up the cliff to our bus that was waiting on top. Nahol Zin is near Kadesh Barnea, where Israel wandered for forty years. It was very beautiful and there were lots of Ibex around which I have never seen before.

An Ibex. They were not very scared of you, so you were able to get quite close.



It was very beautiful, with a river running through and lots of trees by the water although it was still a very dry place.

Nahol Zin.