On our way down towards Eilat, a resort city on the northern tip of the Red Sea, we stopped at Makhtesh Ramon. An important geological feature in the Negev Desert region of Israel, it's the world's largest erosion crater, better explained than I can do at Wikipedia's article here. Walking up to the lip of this crater is a breathtaking view. It's a vast space, in fact it is so big that geologists didn't even know it was a crater until the time of airplanes when they could fly over it. Of course they say it took millions and millions of years to form, but how can they possibly know that? They haven't been around that long.
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