A young singer at the dinner in Haifa. She was quite good and wanted in the worst way to be on and win the American Idol contest.

Taking the gondola saved a lot of walking to the fortress at Masada (World Heritage Site).

We were given an orientation to the site and then a couple of hours to look around on our own.

Here is some remaining mosaic in the ruins.

1340 feet below sea level to be exact.

Jan and Steve doing the Dead Sea thing. Man that was some foul tasting water.

Much of the bottom was covered in salt crystal. Here is a chunk that I picked up.