In this isolated and barren valley a 4th-century monastery clings precariously to the rock walls.
The monastery was named St. George after the most famous monk who lived at the site Gorgias of Koziba.
The bones and skulls of the martyred monks can still be seen today in the monastery chapel.
But after they were expelled, the monastery fell back into disuse.
A pedestrian bridge across the Wadi Qelt connects the monastery to the road.
