Our flight left at 6:15am from Tel Aviv. Last glimpses of Israel from the air. We boarded the bus for the airport at midnight and rode for around 2 hours to get there. We went through line after line after line to get through customs and immigration and checking...
Last stop on the tour train is Bet She’an. It is the world class in terms of it’s examples of Roman ruins/cities. The city here really is something to see. Pretty amazing. Here is the model of the area. There is a theatre and a couple of hippodromes just like we...
You may remember me mentioning Mt Gilboa when we visited Gideon's Spring. Mt Gilboa is nearby to the spring. This is the mountain above the valley where Saul and David met Goliath and the Philistines. The exact place is not known, but Gideon's Spring is still...
What a God-thing. We only got to go to Mt Tabor because of the rain. It really ended up being a special trip. We left on the bus and could see the mountain as we approached. We drove through a Bedouin town on the way up. Eitan tells us that this particular town is...
This is our last day of touring, and whoa what a doozy! We went to another place pastor had never been before. First thing in the morning we went to the place I wanted to go to the second most. The place I wanted to go to the most was Jacob’s well, but that is...
This area is where my screen-shot of my map was taken...way up north in the Golan Heights, almost to Lebanon and Syria. This place was a place of massive pagan worship to the Roman gods, particularly the Roman god Pan. So Pan had himself a bit of a fetish, he liked...
So if you remember way back to Tel Megiddo, the word “Tel” means that it’s an area that has been built up, one civilization on top of another. In the case of Megiddo, it was 26 layers, one on top of another. Here at Tel Dan, it is two. The original buildings and...
Day 10, again, was a bit slower paced, and we spent longer at our two destinations with more hiking involved. Thankfully, I was feeling a bit better this day because we did some walking. I think I ended up with north of 14.000 steps. These two sites were worth the...
Our guide for the hike extension, Eitan, had gone to live on a kibbutz when he turned 15. The one he went to is on the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, and we happened to drive right by it, so he took us for a tour. A kibbutz is a community that runs with...
On the Northeast side of the Sea of Galilee, we are entering the area of the Golan Heights...where all the conflict was happening round about the 1990s, among other times. There are still mine field signs right by the road, so one doesn’t want to go wandering off on...