The memorial in which I camped is located a few Km from Kalat Namrud – Nimrod’s fortress. This impressive place was built by Saladin’s nephew, but since I have been there many times in the past, I did not visit it this time.
The fortress is built on top of a hill, on the border between mount Hermon and the Golan heights. Geographically speaking – i think it’s part of the Hermon, since the hill is lime stone and not Basalt – but that’s not really my field of expertise. Anyway, on it’s northern side runs a deep canyon, which was created by Hasuri stream (the same stream is renamed Gubta at one point). The Hasuri is the upper part of the stream, and has water running in it – and then they disappear underneath the earth, probably to reappear in the Banias fountain. Thogh short, this is a very steep canyon, and it took me about 4 hours to climb down it’s 3.5 Km.
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