Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Jordan Valley/Dead Sea

En Gedi (“Spring of the Wild Goat”)

The Oasis at En Gedi is one of those places where you want to go and “stay a while.” It is located along the western shore of the Dead Sea. We will be there in the morning after a visit to Masada. En Gedi is mentioned several places in...

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The “Upper Galilee”

Today in Israel we traveled from the “Sea of Galilee” to near the Lebanese and Syrian borders. The journey northward from the lake grows more beautiful with every mile. The Sea of Galilee is 600 feet below sea level so we snaked our way through the twists and turns up the mountains that surround the...

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Caesarea Maritime

“Caesarea Maritime (Caesarea by the Sea)”
A seaport on the Mediterranean about 30 miles north of Joppa and about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, built by Herod the Great in 22 B.C. as his summer palace on the site of ancient Strato’s Tower.  It was the capital of the Roman government in Palestine for about 500 years.  It...

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