Fun in the Desert!

My day started off by waking up at 5:30 AM to get ready for the day, and make it in time to watch the sunrise! And oh was it worth it! To be honest I've never really taken the time out to watch the sunrise, but this was truly an awesome experience that I will remember for a lifetime.
I was pretty much exhausted from the day before, with the camel riding, a short swim in the Dead Sea and what not, but nothing could take away from the beauty of the desert. Of course it was unbearably hot, and I was sweating like crazy, just knowing the Biblical stories that occurred in the desert came close to home. A time with God, spent in glorifying him for his marvelous works,is a true inspiration for the soul to sing praises to his name!
After we ate breakfast and left the Eduino camp that we slept overnight, we headed towards Masada. It's basically an ancient fortress looking over the Dead Sea. The history there was amazing. The story goes that the Jews were at war with the Romans, and this fortress was the Jews' last place of refuge. And whae Romans started attacking and the Jews realized there was no way they were going to win, they committed a mass suicide amongst themselves because they would rather die than have their people become slaves to the Romans, since they knew what would lie ahead. So because of their beliefs they actually had the choice if they wanted to commit so not. So in the end when the Romans finally were able to breach the wall, theywere left with many dead Jews with only a few women and children left alive inside who lived to tell the story.
Even though we had to climb all the way up Masada, hich wasn't a pleasant task, once up there the view and history just enraptured us all!