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Secret photography through the back window of our coach as we passed through a check-point en route to visit the Bedouin in the Negev Desert
With Jared Goldfarb a Jewish archeologist, leading us into an experience of the wilderness walking in the Negev
Bedouin hospitality and initiatives using the herbs from the desert
Tel Beer Sheba (below left), camel muster (top right), and Esther, Alejandro and Sanne on safari (bottom right)!
Tel archeological sites: Beit Guvrin and Lachish with Swedish archeologist Tina Blomquist
The Salesian monastery at Beit Jamal, and the chapel of the Sisters of Bethlehem overleaf
Caesarea Maritima
The port at Caesarea Maritima from which Paul sailed en route to Rome
Tel Megiddo
Welcome to Nazareth
Distant view of modern Nazareth (above left), and the archeological site of Sepphoris
The waters of Banias receive their flow from the southern slopes of Mt Hermon in the Golan and are the headwaters of the Jordan River
Ancient Canaanite site of Tel Dan on the border with the Lebanon
Caesarea Philipi
Nimrod fortress on the slopes of Mt Hermon; a Druze bride and Druze hospitality
The ears of Israel on the Syrian border. UN housing over the border (bottom right)
Ghada Boulos, Palestinian archeologist/anthropologist and our guide extraordinaire in the Galilee
Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha (above), and Church of the Primacy (right)
Lakeside at Tabgha
A ritual of farewell: scattering moms ashes on the sea to calm stormy waters
Approaching Mt Tabor that many Christian traditions hold is the site of the Transfiguration (Mt Hermon is another site)
From the bus cloud formations over the fertile Jordan Valley
The ancient city of Bet Shean an-Scythropolis and Tel Bet Shean