More Israel Pictures - with less description :)

There is no rhyme or reason to the order of these pictures. They certainly don't follow the order in which we saw everything. But... I just wanted to get them up here to share!
Below is a boat that they discovered in the mud of the Sea of Galilee. The wood is about 2000 years old, meaning that this could've been a boat used during the time of Jesus. It was very interesting to see how they recovered this boat!

On the left - the view of Tiberias from the Sea of Galilee. On the right - Andy eating what the town calls St. Peter's fish (from the Sea of Galilee).

Left - the view of the Mediterranean from one of our hotels. Right - A typical meal (breakfast or lunch) in Israel. Hummus with pita bread and a LARGE salad.

Left - underneath the city of Jerusalem is the remnants of the old shopping corridor. At the end of the corridor is a painting to give tourists of picture of what the marketplace would've looked like in its time (right).

Left - I was amazed to catch this women (on the left hand side of the picture) chipping away at the wood of David's tomb. The divider on the right of the picture separated the women from the men visiting the tomb. On the right are the streets within Jerusalem's walls. They were extremely narrow and streetwalkers did NOT have the right of way. :)

A view of New Jerusalem.

Andy and I went to an African Safari (yes in Tel Aviv, Israel) on our last day. It was, by far, the best "zoo" we'd ever been to. Half of the park was a driving safari where we saw many animals playing and eating. The other half had a normal zoo-like set-up where, again, we saw many active animals.

We caught this monkey digging for gold and then eating it! Yuck!

A group of young boys on a field trip began feeding these bears their chips. It was great to see the bears stand up begging for more! No guards or employees were present to stop the school children, so the feeding frenzy went on for quite some time.

The poor rhino on the right seemed to be suffering from a form of pink eye.






In Caeserea we saw the Roman ruins of a theatre right next to the Mediterranean. The horses were to give a picture of the chariot races that would take place here. On the right, I am sitting in the stands where many Romans sat and watched the chariot races.

Below we are in Megiddo. On the right is a view of the Jezreel Valley (the prophesied sight of Armageddon) from atop Megiddo.

At the Yom Kippur Memorial Sight below, we saw many bunkers and tanks remaining from the 1973 battle that has given Israel the most peaceful borders its ever had. Behind the tank is a view of Syria.

Below is Nimrod's Fortress, atop a VERY HIGH mountain. And yes, once you got onto the Fortress, you still had to climb UP. Nimrod's Fortress is in the Golan Heights, north of the Sea of Galilee.

Also in the Golan Heights is the Banias Waterfalls. Hidden in the valleys of the mountains is this amazing waterfall. There were suspended bridges to walk along the waterfalls. It was one of my favorite spots!

In Caeserea Philippi (Peter's hometown), we saw the ruins of their city center, gravesites and their oil press.

The Church of the Beatitudes - built on the mountain they claim Jesus preached Matthew 5 from. The Sea of Galilee is in the background.

In Luke 10:13 Jesus said, "Woe to you Korazim!". Below are the ruins of this town that quickly rejected Christ as the Messiah. Based on the ruins, they were obviously and intelligent group of people, capable of building with the most dense and difficult stones in the region. Yet their intelligence kept them from seeing the truths of the Messiah. Andy, on the right, is sitting on the Royal Stone in Korazim's palace.