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Fugarot are vertical shafts cut into the desert to access underground water channels, part of the ancient qanat irrigation systems of the Negev. Posts here include a day in the southern Arava, where the shafts form part of the desert’s water-engineering story.

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Flamingos in the Avrona Salt Pools near Eilat
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Campus Eilat Day Three: Southern Arava

Day three of Campus Eilat: heading up the Southern Arava — the Eilat Bird Park, the Avrona farms and fugarot tunnels, the Doum Palms, Shechoret Canyon, the Chai Bar and a desert kite, ending with a Chanukah candle lighting back in Eilat.

Dec 2013 · 4 minute read
Our guide shows us some migrating birds in the Eilat Bird Park Flamingos in the Avrona Salt Pools near Eilat Crawling through the fugarot / qanat tunnels at the Avrona Farms Doum Palms in the Arava Hiking through Canyon Shechoret View after hiking through Canyon Shechoret Ancient predator trap Safari in the Chai Bar: roaming Oryxes Chai Bar: feeding time for the leopards Remains of a desert kite in the Negev Our infamous course coordinator Benny lights the chanukkiah
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