Negev Mountains Nature Reserve

We spent a lovely weekend camping at the Borot Lotz campground. Very nice free campground with protected areas for tents, clean bathrooms, and campfire pits (bring your own wood). The one drawback is that it's quite popular as well - some people had to camp away from the protected area and I imagine it was a bit windy for them at night.

The nighttime visibility is fantastic here, we were able to clearly see the Milky Way. We saw some other campers with a serious telescope.

We did the red loop trail and saw a series of ancient cisterns, some of which had quite a bit of water in them and beautiful shady trees. The nature reserve is really huge, and there are many other areas that we didn't see. Worth the drive, I'm sure we'll be back to explore other parts of the reserve.