After our visit to the Saint Joseph school we had some time to see a bit of Nazareth. We entered the courtyard, and the first floor, of the Church of the Annunciation, and received explanations of what we were seeing from Arik Friedman, our guide. We continued on to the market where we took a bit of time to wander around and buy some trinkets to bring back home.
Our next stop was at the north of the Sea of Galilee, at Capernaum, where we took our daily group photo.
And then we viewed the village (or its ruins), along with Arik, our guide. Arik explained to us that the site is considered to be the home of John the Baptist, and we saw the different levels of excavations, and both of the towns that originally were there.
We continued on to Kibbutz Ein Gev where we had a tasty lunch, and to a spot in the lower Golan Heights where we were able to see how Israel looked to Syria before the Six Day War, and the way the Yarmukh river divides between the Golan and the Gilead, and between Jordan, Israel, and Syria.
By then we were quite exhausted from a long day, but we kept enough strength for one more stop before heading home - we parked at the Baptism site of Yardenit and took in the atmosphere.
Some of us even had the strength for a walk along Dizengoff in the late evening before going to sleep.
Our next stop was at the north of the Sea of Galilee, at Capernaum, where we took our daily group photo.
And then we viewed the village (or its ruins), along with Arik, our guide. Arik explained to us that the site is considered to be the home of John the Baptist, and we saw the different levels of excavations, and both of the towns that originally were there.
We continued on to Kibbutz Ein Gev where we had a tasty lunch, and to a spot in the lower Golan Heights where we were able to see how Israel looked to Syria before the Six Day War, and the way the Yarmukh river divides between the Golan and the Gilead, and between Jordan, Israel, and Syria.
By then we were quite exhausted from a long day, but we kept enough strength for one more stop before heading home - we parked at the Baptism site of Yardenit and took in the atmosphere.
Some of us even had the strength for a walk along Dizengoff in the late evening before going to sleep.
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