The trip to Masada was with my good friend, Oz, and was a 2 day trip. First day we slept close to the entrance to the site and before dawn started our ascent to the massive and impressive ruins of Masada. Was quite amazing!

Simply put, Masada is a 450 meter plateau that rose and broke from the fault escarpment, and as such, stands alone as a close isle to the main cliff array. The Masadsa mountain is confined on it's eastern side by the shores of the ever shrinking Dead sea, on it's southern side by the Masada Wadi and on it's western side by Wadi Ben Yair - at the north wing a wide plain is stretched along the shores all the way to the northern part of the Dead Sea.
There are basically two ways to reach the mountain: either via the west wing, which takes advantage of the almost 2000 year old ramp the Romans built or via the eastern wing in which a path snakes up in a series of looping stretches (hence it's name, "The Snake Path") - in both cases, the park's confinement have open camping sites on both sides, the western is more comfortable and have hygiene facilities. Me and my friend decided to do the Snake Path, thus camped at the open and barren camping site on the eastern side.