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Holy Land Series - Mitzpe Ramon - desert town 1

Old housing project at the edge of the desert with cloudy skies above.nnMitzpe Ramon is a desert town of 5,000 citizens. nnBuilt in the 1950`s its neighborhoods are low risin apartment buildings typical for the era. The town is surrounded by the Negev desert.nnnThe Ramon Crater in Israel’s Negev Desert is the world’s largest erosion crater or Makhtesh. a Makhtesh is a large erosion cirque, created 220 million years ago when oceans covered the area the word crater is therefore a misleading translation of Hebrew to English. The Ramon Crater measures 40 km in length and between 2 and 10 km in width, shaped like a long heart, and forms Israel’s largest national park, the Ramon Nature Reserve.

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