Another trip to Gamla National Park

Today was another nice sunny day, so we decided to take another trip to Gamla National Park, over in the Golan. We invited our friend, Cynthia, to go with us, and all three of us had a great time.

Gamla National Park gets its name from a town from Second Temple times that was located there. The name comes from the word גמל gamal, which means "camel". In this first picture, you can see why -- the town was located on a hill whose shape greatly resembles the hump of a camel. In the lower left of the picture, you can see some of the town that has been excavated by archeologists. We had actually hoped to take a vehicle tour down to this spot, but it was too muddy today.

This second picture shows the lower Gamla waterfall. Not at all surprisingly, there is PLENTY of water here, since we had steady rain for about 4 or 5 days this last week.

Here's a zoomed view of the waterfall, using the maximum optical zoom on my camera.

Finally, here's a picture of a beautiful flower with an interesting orange bug sitting on it: