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I dug out my fisheye for our trip to the Machtesh, as the Ramon Crater is also known. In fact it's not really a crater at all, because it has nothing to do with the impact of a meteor or with volcanic activity. "Machtesh" is an untranslatable Hebrew word that refers to the particular way this fantastically large hole in the ground was formed -- apparently through the action of water seeping into the peak of a huge mountain and causing it to erode and eventually collapse.
Whatever made it happen, it's breathtakingly strange and beautiful. Ross agrees that it was worth his driving two and a half hours to get to when he was sick as a dog. :-)
המכתש:1
I dug out my fisheye for our trip to the Machtesh, as the Ramon Crater is also known. In fact it's not really a crater at all, because it has nothing to do with the impact of a meteor or with volcanic activity. "Machtesh" is an untranslatable Hebrew word that refers to the particular way this fantastically large hole in the ground was formed -- apparently through the action of water seeping into the peak of a huge mountain and causing it to erode and eventually collapse.
Whatever made it happen, it's breathtakingly strange and beautiful. Ross agrees that it was worth his driving two and a half hours to get to when he was sick as a dog. :-)