Holy Land Tour

Masada

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Masada is 1307 feet above the Dead Sea. It is 1950 feet long, 650 feet wide at its widest place, 4250 feet in circumference.
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Today, you can get to the top via cable car.
Fifteen long storerooms kept essential provisions for times of siege.
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It only rains a few inches each year, so to store what little rain that does fall, there are a series of massive underground storage chambers.
My tour guide, Moses
Herod had several private bathhouses built at Masada. The heavy floor was supported on 200 pillars. Outside the room, a furnace would send hot air under the floor, creating steam.
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The siege ramp the Romans built in 70 AD.

Jerusalem :: Walls and Gates

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The wailing wall: The most holy place in the world to Jewish people. Prayers are offered up at this wall built by King Herod in the first century B.C. Some of the stones in the wailing wall date back to the first Temple.
Some of the stones in the western portion of the old city's walls are truly massive in size, the largest of which weighs 570 tons and is 44 feet long, 10 feet high and 12-16 feet deep. The next largest stone in the wall is a mere 40 feet long. The largest stone in the Great Pyramid weighs 11 tons.
In one area the wall runs alongside a moat.
The Zion gate was shot up during the 1948 Israeli war for independence.
This is the gate that Jesus will use to enter Jerusalem.