Spelunking in Zedekiah's Cave!

On Thursday we only had 1 class, so I basically had a free day. I decided to go to Zedekiah’s Cave with a few other people, and it was so fun! Apparently Zedekiah’s Cave started out as a natural cave, but by the First Temple Period, it was used as a quarry; the stone was even perhaps used as building blocks for Solomon’s Temple! It’s been quarried out a lot and it goes down really deep. There were lots of signs that said “No Passage” or areas that had chains to deter exploring, but there was a certain section that didn’t have any warnings yet was off the trail. Well, we took the lack of chains to mean that we could go there, and it was so worth it! We crawled through tunnels and ended up in a small chamber that had water dripping in it, making new cave formations. I’ll definitely be back there soon!

This was in the hidden chamber. Don't we really look like we fell?