Friday, December 18, 2009

Clint Eastwood and the ibex

Just one more thing about Masada. Before ascending, we used the rest rooms and the music being piped in was Morricone's sound track for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! Cracked us both up. We expected to see Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach to come riding over the cliffs.

The ibex is a type of mountain goat (very cute) that lives in the rocky hills here. A cartoony version is the symbol of the national park service here. We saw some at Qumran and Masada. A couple were hiding in the caves at Qumran when it started to rain.

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