April 26th, Day #6

The hike today up and down an Eilat mountain was challenging, but most of the students enjoyed the challenge and a chance to see the borders of four countries from the mountain top. After the hike they all got to snorkel next to a coral reef in the Red Sea. The snorkeling was for a shorter time than many of the kids wanted but unfortunately, since the coral reef has to be protected from humans destroying it, you can only swim there with a special guide. After snorkeling we had lunch in Eilat at the food court and then we started driving up through the Negev desert to our next stop, the Ramon Makhtesh, usually translated as the Ramon Crater. This geological phenomenon looks a huge crater but they believe it was formed by a mountain collapsing. Our travels for today ended at Kibbutz Sde Boker, where we are staying in the dorms of this desert Field School.