Today is May 27 and we leave our hotel on the Dead Sea and move our way North to some of the sights along the way. The first stop is Masada, the scene of a powerful story from around 70 AD. As you probably know, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD as a crack down on the Jewish Zealots who were threatening the authority of the Romans.
After Jerusalem fell, many of the Zealots went down South to Masada, which was built by Herod as a kind of “winter home” in the desert. It also was built as a fortress so that if anyone ever threatened Herod, he’d have a place to hide out…it was quite a place in it’s day!
Well, if you’ve seen the movie, the Romans had to build a ramp to get to the city, it only took 8 months to build! Once they got into the city, the Zealots decided to take matters into their own hands and they all committed suicide so that the Romans couldn’t enslave them.
We got a cable car ride over...glad we didn't have to walk, some other people did walk, one guy just laid down after he got there because he was so worn out...not good!Really interesting how they utilized the water in cisterns…today was the hottest day of our trip, so we got the full experience!
Next was En Gedi…
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