Hezekiah's Tunnel

Hezekiah's Tunnel beneath Jerusalem's City of David carries you through a stone-cut passage dug around 2,700 years ago, when two crews of quarrymen tunneled toward each other from opposite ends to hide the city's spring from an advancing Assyrian army. The guide reads from the ancient Hebrew inscription the diggers carved into the tunnel wall describing how they heard each other's voices through solid rock, and follows the winding S-shaped route they cut rather than a straight line. Wade through the same spring water the diggers were racing to protect.