On our Israel tours, we say we go places that other tours don’t go. And sometimes we get stuck.
We were hoping to see El Araj, one of the two sites currently vying to be identified as the biblical Bethsaida but there had been an unusually excessive (for May) amount of rain. But John DeLancey pushed the bus out of the mud and we were on our way.
We awoke to a beautiful day along the Sea of Galilee.
Each of our cabins has a beautiful view of the lake. (The Sea of Galilee is also known as Lake Kinneret.)
The wilderness east of Jerusalem is a harsh and foreboding land, as we found out on Day 5. But first we stopped at the world’s oldest city, Jericho.
The stone tower of Jericho, what some have called the first skyscraper in the world, built early in Jericho’s 9,000-year history. Later levels of occupation covered it.
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