- Created: February 8, 2019 2:10 pm
- Updated: March 18, 2020 11:17 am
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Trail Type: Hiking
Difficulty Grade: Moderate
- Distance 14.63 km
- Time 5 h 49 min
- Speed 3.0 km/h
- Min Altitude -330 m
- Peak 53 m
- Climb 469 m
- Descent 538 m
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- Straight-line
1. Qumran
Altitude: -333 m
Qumran is best known as the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered not so long ago. Located on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the Jerusalem Wilderness. Remains dating back to the Iron Age have been uncovered at Qumran as well as walls, pottery and a cistern from later settlements.