Desert trips

Deserts are dry, which is why we appreciate so much the springs and running water, to relax and even to swim!

Unique geological formations, massive erosive crater-like basins which developed out of a unique set of circumstances. There are three major makhteshim in the Israeli Negev, each makhtesh something special!

The largest of the three major makhteshim, 40 km. long, 9 km wide and close to 400 m’ deep, it is a truly remarkable geological formation.

On 31^st October, 1917 the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps outflanked the Ottoman defences in order to attack and take the town of Beer Sheva from the east.

At the lowest point on earth, about 400 m’ below sea level, the Dead Sea is surely one of nature’s wonders. Come and explore!

The “capital” of the Negev, 5,000 years of history yet only 120 years old. Chalcolithic remains on the banks of the Beer Sheva wadi (dry

For about a thousand years the Negev was intensively settled, reaching its zenith in the 5th-6th centuries. We have a lot to learn from them!