Absolutely surreal place to visit and climbing the steps vs walking the Roman ramp really puts a lot of things into perspective. My second time visiting Masada, we climbed the steps to watch the sun rise over the Dead Sea.

Amazing place with an amazing history. And it’s all ruined by the same type of persecution that made Masada famous. I wish I could blame it on “hurt people hurt people,” but that was a long fucking time ago; people are fucking monsters.