Lot's wife Traditional Geocache
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Lot's wife, place near to former biblical city of Sodom with unique salt cave.
This remarkable happening is stated matter-of-factly, with no suggestion that it was a special miracle or divine judgment. Lot’s wife "looked back" (the phrase might even be rendered "returned back" or "lagged back") seeking to cling to her luxurious life in Sodom (note Christ’s reference to this in Luke 17:32,33) and was destroyed in the "overthrow" (Genesis 19:25,29) of the city. There are many great deposits of rock salt in the region, probably formed by massive precipitation from thermal brines upwelling from the earth’s deep mantle during the great Flood. Possibly the overthrow buried her in a shower of these salt deposits blown skyward by the explosions. There is also the possibility that she was buried in a shower of volcanic ash, with her body gradually being converted into "salt" over the years following through the process of petrifaction, in a manner similar to that experienced by the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
This is my first cache in Israel. I believe you will like it. Coordinates will bring you to entrance to the salt cave located just under salt pillar known as Lot's wife. Cache is a small transparent plastic container placed inside of the cave, only about 1,5meter behind the entrance on your right hand side. Cache is hidden inside of the crack in cave's wall, some 3meters above ground level (but accessible by the rocky slope of cave's wall).
I recomend to bring a torch with you and after finding the cache (you don't need a torch to find it) visit the cave. It is about 200meters long tunnel (don't worry, you can't get lost inside) on which's end is a surprise waiting for you! Note that there is a salt everywhere around!
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Pnzbhsyntrq ol fznyy fgbar vafvqr bs gur penpx