I don’t have time right now to update much about Israel, and I can’t guarantee that I’ll get very far this week with finals and everything coming up. Just so you know what’s coming, here’s a list of all the places/sites we visited on our trip through the Holy Land:

  • Caesarea Maritime
  • Nazareth/Church of the Immaculate Conception
  • Bethsaida
  • Sea of Galilee boat ride
  • “Jesus Boat” Museum
  • Capernaum
  • Mt. Tiberias
  • Mount of the Beatitudes
  • Dan Nature Reserve
  • Tel-Dan
  • Banyas Falls in the Golan Heights
  • Caesarea Philippi
  • Fortress of Nimrod
  • Baptistery at the Jordan
  • Mt. Horeb/Springs of Harod (Gideon in Judges 7)
  • Valley of Jezreel
  • Qum’Ran
  • Ein Gedi
  • Dead Sea
  • Mt. Sodom
  • Masada
  • Bedouin camp
  • Be’er Sheva
  • Ha Ella Valley (David and Goliath)
  • Bet Guvrin
  • Bet Shemesh
  • Bethlehem/Church of the Nativity
  • Jerusalem
  • Mt. of Olives
  • Garden of Gethsemane
  • St. Anne’s Cathedral
  • Pools of Bethesda
  • Church of the Flagellation
  • Church of the Condemnation
  • Via Dolorosa
  • Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  • Temple Mount
  • Western Wall
  • Hezekiah’s Tunnel/Pool of Siloam
  • Southern Steps of the Temple Mount
  • Temple Mount Archaeological Park (w/ virtual tour)
  • Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum)
  • Jerusalem Museum (Model of 1st Century Jerusalem & Shrine of the Book)
  • Traditional Upper Room
  • Tomb of David
  • Gordon’s Calvary/Garden Tomb

Yeah, we saw all these in only 9 days. It was one crazy trip. I can’t wait to share my experiences with you.