The Wadi Kelt
located between Al Quds (Jerusalem) and Ariha (Jericho), Palestine
Wadi Kelt
A ravine begins on the East side of the Mount of Olives and grows into an impressive canyon with a Christian monastery built into a cliff near its lower end. One can walk from Jerusalem to this point near Jericho down an ancient footpath in a few hours. Here, a thousand feet below sea level, the wadi joins the flood plain of the Jordan River. On the mountain to the left, Herod the Great had a summer palace. Israeli archaeologists work on nearby on Roman baths while Bedoin tent are not too far away.
Monastery in the Wadi Kelt
Bedouin tent by the Wadi Kelt
Wadi Nu'eima
This image was taken in the valley of a wadi that is a tributary to the east of the Jordan River north of Jericho. In the winter and early spring the land is green, but by May all will be golden, brown, and dry. If you look close, you can see a flock of sheep and a family caring for them.
Ancient Israel was a tribe that arrived from the desert and settled in the hills, while the Philistines came from the sea and and controlled cities on the coastal plain. In the twentieth century it is the Palestinians who have roots and cousins in the desert and who occupy the hills, while the Israelis came from across the sea and settled in cities on the coastal plain.
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