beit guvrin
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I'm sorry for my long absence - we've had a few weeks of visitors, and have been away the last week, "rolodexing the fun" as my friend Debbie says. We left last Sunday to drive down South, through the centre of the country since the weather was downright tempestuous. We still ended up driving through vast puddles on the road that goes through Ramon Crater. We stopped at Beit Guvrin, site of a town from about the third century BC and known for its strange, double-cross shaped columbarian, with about two hundred niches where pigeons were kept for food and fertilizer and "ritual purposes." There are also majestic, bell-shaped caves formed by people quarrying limestone. Because of the rain, it was lushly green and very muddy. There were tiny flowers in the grass, and when we got back to the car we were completely filthy.
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