We left Petra in the morning. This first picture is taken from the bus, but the disadvantage of being on a tour is that you can't stop wherever you want to take pictures. The REASON I took this picture is because I wanted to remember this fact: If you don't finish your house in Jordan and Israel, you don't pay as much taxes on it, so almost all of the houses have rebar sticking out of it indicating that they MIGHT build another story onto the house. Sometime. Maybe. Consequently, nobody finishes their house and the whole effect is rather messy.
Just a street scene in one of the towns we stopped in:
We also made a stop at Mount Nebo where Moses was shown the promised land but told he wouldn't be going in to it. There was a church built here as well as this marker. We soon would find out that there are churches built on just about every site that is considered holy.
I liked the road signs as we wound our way down from Mount Nebo. The exclamation mark tells me that it is an important bit of information, but that Arabic writing is so.... foreign.
When we came to the border, our guide had to leave us as he is Jordanian and not allowed into Israel. The bus driver could drive us across the border to checkpoint and then we had to board another bus that drove across Israel, passing Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. There we met up with another group of people joining our tour. We now would have two busses in our tour.
Tel Aviv is a beautiful seaside city and this was the view from our hotel room.
We had just enough time before dinner to walk along the boardwalk from our hotel (one of the ones on the far left) to Jaffa (Joppa) where Jonah tried to get out of going to Ninevah and Peter had the vision that did away with kosher food at Simon the Tanner's house. The next morning Mark went out for a jog along the boardwalk.
A house in Jaffa:
Lance and Laura with the whale:
Simon the Tanner's house:
The docks of Jaffa:
Looking from the dock at old town Jaffa:
As we returned to the hotel we saw a beautiful sunset:
1 comment:
I am LOVING these posts. I spent a few weeks in Israel in September of 2000. (I went with a choir group and we sang for Lex Di Azevedo's world premier of Hosannah) I want to go back with Wesley SO bad. I love ALL your pictures and love reading about all the places you're seeing. A lot of sights are ones we saw as well. Keep up the posts!! =o)
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