Yes Jerry. Thanks for asking. We got back very late last Monday from Greece. We spent about 12 days in Israel; visited Petra in Jordan one day and then left our tour group and visited in Greece for about 3 days. We had a wonderful time. We hit most of Israel from the coast, up to the north and then down to the gulf of Aqaba. We arrived in Tel Aviv, toured Caeserea, the aquaducts, Mt. Carmel, Valley of Armageddon, Nazareth, Cana, Sea of Galilee, Mt. of Beatitudes, Capharnaum, Beth Saida, the En Gev, the Jordan river and valley, Beth Shean, Qumran, Caeserea Philippi, Tel Dan, Golan Heights, Masada, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, Hezekiah's tunnel etc...... Here are just a few photos of some 3,000 that the three of us took.
Here's a view of the northwest side of the Sea of Galilee from a mountain top above the city of Tiberias. The mount of the beatitudes is located on the north sidel. It was pretty late in the evening when I took this photo.
Jordan River
Ancient ruins at Beth Shean
Cave at Qumram where the dead sea scrolls were found
Much of the land is producing a staggering amount of fruit & produce. It's really quite mind boggling how they have turned so much wilderness areas into productive land. The first photo below is of a date orchard with what I believe are citrus in the foreground. The second photo is of a banana plantation. We saw banana plantations nearly everywhere. You name the fruit and they likely grow it.
The Wailing Wall (west side of the Temple Mount)
Hezekiah's tunnel. A wet 30-40 minute trek through this tunnel carved through solid rock in order to bring water into the old city of Jerusalem.
The Temple Mount as viewed from the Mount of Olives.
The Garden Tomb
The area believed by some to be Golgotha, located just outside of the garden tomb. If this is Golgotha then Jesus would have been crucified in the area that is now a bus terminal and parking lot.
Masada, a high mount where several hundred Jews reportedly committed suicide rather than submit to capture by the Romans.
View from Masada down at the ancient ruins of the Roman encampment that was located there during the three year siege of Masada.
Romans finally gained entry into Masada by building this earth-filled ramp. On the ramp they had their war machines of catapults and rams.
Found inside Masada were these large boulders that the Romans used in their catapults.
Once inside Jordan we toured Petra.
