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At the top of the crater at Eli's Ascent - Picture of HaMakhtesh HaKatan, Southern District

Photo: At the top of the crater at Eli's Ascent

From Review : The BEST day-hike of my life! of HaMakhtesh HaKatan
YitzchakM wrote a review Apr 2018
Or Yehuda, Israel1,137 contribution244 helpful votes
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My grown and married-with-5-kids son and I travelled down into the central Negev Desert and hiked down into, across, and up one of Israel’s 3 world-famous natural craters – the Machtesh HaKatan (Small Crater). I had been here before several years ago alone on my Israel Trail
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Date of experience: May 2017
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