1. Bill gets "volunteered" to be a 3D map of Israel while our guide explains why land east of Jerusalem gets all the rain, while the Negev gets only .5" inch of rain annually.
2. The rock formations are salt. Norma has a taste to prove it!
3. Desert
4. Desert
5. More desert
6. The large pillar-like rock formation... guess who? That's right! It's Lot's wife. :-)
7. Maxine, Barbara, and Melanie listen to our guide talk about the Acacia tree, under which we are sitting.
8. Random photo of interest, at least to me... In all the restrooms around the Jewish parts of the Israel I've noticed these plastic cups. I'm a bit slow on the draw, so it took me a while to realize that they're probably there for a reason. This picture was taken at a road-side gas station not far from our Hotel here at the Dead Sea. The cups are for Orthodox Jews to wash their hands. The cups all hold exactly the same amount of water. The two handles are so you can wash one hand at a time. Before approaching the Western Wall for prayer, Jews stopped at a hand-washing station using the same kind of cup. Go back and look at picture At the hawashing station just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem they had the same cups. (See picture 7 on my blogpost for Day #11.)
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