For the last 2 weeks we have been on a study tour running around the North of Israel and then back to Jerusalem these last 4 nights. We have really loved our time here in the Holy Land and looking forward to heading to Petra in Jordan tomorrow.
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| The view from our accommodation on Mt Carmel in Haifa where the study tour was based |
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| Two headed cow at Haifa zoo |
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| Looking down over the harbor in Haifa |
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| The church in Mt Carmel |
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| Overlooking the Jezreel Valley where Elijah battled the prophets of Baal and site for the battle of Armageddon |
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| Elijah himself |
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| The ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee |
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| The beautiful Sea of Galilee |
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| The Jordan River (maybe it should be called a creek) |
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| Fishy lunch at a Kibbutz at the Sea of Galilee |
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| Waiting on the Galilee shore for our boat ride across |
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| Looking back across the sea towards the Kibbutz and the Golan Heights |
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| Tel Dan in the very North of Israel (lush and green with lots of water off Mt Hermon) |
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| Tel Dan and the false altar (Judges 17 and 18) |
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| Looking into Lebanon from the North of Israel |
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| The gates of the ancient city of Dan |
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| The springs at ancient Caesarea Philippi |
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| The springs at ancient Caesarea Philippi |
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| Mine fields on the Golan Heights left over from the 1973 Yom Kippur war |
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| A memorial from tank battle on the Golan Heights |
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| Looking down into Syria and could hear gun battles in the distance with their ongoing civil war |
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| Bunkers from the 1973 war on Golan Heights |
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| Mt Hermon in the background and Syria on the right, fortifications from previous conflicts and now UN observation post |
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| The Bahai Gardens in Haifa at their international headquarters (not short of cash) |
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| New toys to play on |
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| Nancy makes a friend from the women's shelter at the church in Mt Carmel |
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| Amphitheater at Caesarea Maritima on the Mediterranean |
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| Caesarea hippodrome in the background |
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| Horse races on the Caesarea hippodrome |
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| The crusader walls of Caesarea |
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| The aqueduct on the beach near Caesarea |
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| Climbing the aqueduct at Caesarea |
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| Wouldn't be Israel without a picture with a tank |
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| Overlooking Jerusalem from Abraham's Ridge |
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| Dome of the Rock |
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| Dome of the Rock |
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| The Western Wall |
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| Synagogue at the Western Wall |
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| How big is that rock - foundations of the Temple Mount |
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| Back to Masada - the desert in bloom |
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| Back to En Gedi |
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| Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered |
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| Cave #4 where the Isaiah Scroll was found |
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| Back to the Dead Sea for another swim (bob) - perfect weather |
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| Bobbing around in the Dead Sea |
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| Clowning around in 32% salt concentration - makes it hard to sink and hurts when it gets in your eyes |
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| View over the Old City of Jerusalem from Mount of Olives |
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| St Anne's Church in Jerusalem - location of the pools of Bethesda |
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