Okay, so we didn't walk TO Jericho per say...but we did visit the city and walked around the old ruins!
The first place we visited was called Tel Es-Sultan.
We walked around the tel and saw the oldest man-made structure in the world - A Neolithic Tower that has stairs inside!
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| Ohhh just standing next to the oldest manmade structure in the world |
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| Sideways...sorry! Watch Tower |
Yay for Jericho!
Yay for being in the oldest city in the world!
Yay for old ruins!
Yay for standing in the lowest place on earth!
Yay for jumping pictures!
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Okiee...Next up on the itinerary was a visit to Herod's Winter Palace!
I didn't get a shot of the entire palace and courtyard area...Thorry : ) I wish I would have - it covered a pretty big area and had lots of interesting things.
The Palace site is located south of Tel-Sultan, and it was fascinating! So much of it had been excavated, it was extremely cool to see this complex and picture what life may have been like thousands of years ago.
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| Pillars of the Courtyard |
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| Fountain |
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| Cute cute cute Bedoin children that lived right next to the Palace and came down to visit us with their goats! |
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Finally we took a little drive up the canyon to get a good look down on a Monastery that is built in a canyon in the middle of the Judean Wilderness! Check a look at this - It is literally built INTO the rocks of the canyon. Absolutely fascinating to see, and a beautiful site.
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| Frolicking in the Desert! We had to take a little hike to look down at the Monastery. |
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| I dabble in turbanning... |
great pictures. you and Megan are looking good.
ReplyDeleteloved the picture of the monastery in the cliff.
pretty neat stuff.