This morning we drove through the desert which makes up 60% of the land area of Israel. Stopped at Mt Sodom on which there was a pillar of salt called Lot's wife. The mountain is almost entirely made of salt. The area is known as the Negev. We drove by the wilderness of Zin. This desert has no sand dunes but is made of barren rocky hills and valleys with the odd oasis. One of these even had a McDonald's. We passed some farm land on which they grow vegetables in greenhouses, mainly peppers and tomatoes.
We drove through a dust storm blowing from the South.
We stopped at Park Timna in the wilderness where there was a replica of the tabernacle of God that the Hebrews carried with them on their 40 year journey through the desert. Our guide did an amazing job of explaining the structure and purposes of the parts of the tabernacle and tying it into the New Testament and how it was pointing to Christ and his final sacrifice. See www.berean-to-berean.com for more.
We also stopped for pictures at a rock formation called Solomon's Pillars.
Our last activity was a drive through Hai Bar nature reserve where we saw biblical animals that are being raised with the idea of introducing them back into Israeli nature. We saw Somali Wild Ass, Addax, Ostrich, Oryx, Sahara Oryx, Dorcas Gazelle and Onager and Acacia trees that grow in the desert.
We stopped at a McDonald's on the way back and saw a number of army reservists, men and women, apparently on their way to the area around Gaza.
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