Masada

Here we are at Masada, the site where King Herod built a palace fortress. The first shot is the view from Masada, you can see how it would be really tough to attack. The second is the mosaic tiles in the bathhouse. It's hard to believe in the middle of the dessert at the turn of the first millenia that the technology was there for water galore, but it's true - it's one of the reasons that the Zealots fled to Masada in 66 C.E. to escape the Romans. The final shot is me amidst the ruins. It was an incredible complex - the cisterns alone held enough to provide water for 1,000 citizens for ten years!