Photos: 1: me with Salim, the bedouin who runs the camp 2: me at the ancient entrance to Avdat 3: Byzantine church that was built here--the open hole in the foreground was the baptismal font, and used to lure Arabs (water draws everyone in the desert!) and to convert them to Christianity 4: floor of the church, with crosses carved into the stone 5: me outside the entrance to one of the cave houses of Avdat