Wadi Qelt, Israel
I really don’t how it happened, but somehow I found myself hanging on a rope for a second time for less in two months….=)
It really looks like a making it one of my hobbies =).
It started when Yuzik, that hate birthdays, decided to celebrate his birthday. He didn’t change his mind, but only realize something – When you have a birthday you can use it to make people do things. For example – make people from the north of Israel (Haifa) visit Jerusalem and climb in Wadi Qelt =)
Wadi Qelt is a real cool place to hike, and to climb in it is real awesome! So we climb, and not like in Wales, that time the Wales were vertical, what made it harder!
Take Care
Gad
Upper Wadi Canyon in the distance. You can see the steep curves in the road that goes down to the valley.
The pool that storage the water from the the upper spring in Wadi Qelt (Ein Prat). There are two more springs down the valley – Ein Maboa and Ein Qalt.
Such Clear Water! and such big fish! The British and then the Jordanian pump that water to the east neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Now days the water just goes down the valley.
When you start climbing the Wadi, you find the sign that leads you to one of the monasteries along the valley – Paran Monastery. It is a Laura (path in Greek) monastery – meaning the monks used to live in their cave during the week and only in the weekend they gathered in the monastery.
Climbing up the vally. can you see the cliffs above in the distance?
The Ein Prat spouting.
Climbing up on the steps to the monastery. Look at the cave, doesn’t it look like a throat (with uvula)?
The caves of the monks of the monastery, and the wall of the monastery below.
The southern climbing wall of the valley
just over the corner, there are more climbing routes, some are easier (grade 5) and some are harder (grade 7).
The northern wall of the valley
And going back home… tired but happy =)