Our first stop was to a Bedouin village where some women taught us how they weave. This particular group sells their products to help pay for women to get educations.
Next we went to Tel Arad, which had the remains of a Canaanite city and an Israelite city. One thing that the national parks do is reconstruct just enough of the walls to give you a sense of the towns. They separate the added wall from the ancient with a thick layer of mortar.
Tel Advat was the southernmost part of our trip. The Nabateans built a city here because it was on the Incense Route. This place was fun to explore because some of the homes were build in caves. My group was pretty spread out by this time, so the professors drafted some of the student to hide in the caves and scare people.
The last stop was the grave site of Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel back in 1948. But the reason we stopped here was for the view. This area is called the Wilderness of Zin/Sin.
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