The Jaffa Gate: our first point of entry into Old Jerusalem
The Fab Four: Trixi, Oliver, Christian and myself
A peek into the Arab market from above
Humungous Christmas decorations?
The Jaffa Gate by day
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The sepulchre in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
And I thought nuns would always be going UP the stairway...
Prayer
The Wailing Wall in a bar mitzvah crush
Traditional music, contemporary clogs
Bar mitzvah: a festival for all the family
Carrying the scroll to become a man
Fetching leather prayer straps
We stop for tea at the Austrian Club
The Damascus Gate as seen from Arab East Jerusalem
Another view of the Wailing Wall
The Wailing Wall underground - it's huge!
Omnipresent military types
The YMCA, a funky art deco creation
Trixi tucks in to a local beer
Aah! The pastries!
An obligatory spices shot from the Jewish market
Jerusalem, as seen from Mount Scopus
A cemetery with a view
The Garden of Gethsemane
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
A nice lamp in the Church of the Nativity
The local market in Bethlehem
Pop music, Arab style
St Mary's Syrian Orthodox church in Bethlehem - and I didn't even know there WAS a Syrian Orthodox church
The new security barrier that lies across the West Bank
Christian gets snap-happy back in Jerusalem
The Dome on the Rock on Temple Mount
Other ruins on Temple Mount
The Dome on the Rock from up close
It's a huge playground really, up on the Temple Mount
Looking from the Temple Mount over the Garden of Gethsemane to a Russian Orthodox church on Mount Scopus
A well-earned break from the incessant sight seeing
Nice marble columns at the Dome on the Rock that reminded me of the mosque at Cordoba
The sun rises over the Dead Sea, as seen from Mount Masada
The early-morning climb has affected Christian's taste in millinery
The fortifications on Mount Masada date from Roman times
The Judean Desert is really rather dry...
...and rocky too
The Dead Sea looks inviting but so isn't
The path we took before sunrise glides below us in the cable car back down
Mount Masada in all its glory
Oliver afloat in the Dead Sea - a truly bizarre experience
Oh so salty!
Refreshing swimming holes in En Gedi nature reserve
Hot skies over En Gedi
One of En Gedi's more visible inhabitants
The caves at Qumran where they found the Dead Sea Scrolls
Trixi's toes are nibbled in the Jordan
More tourism, more guns: welcome to the Banias Falls
A friendly bedouin rolls me a local style crêpe
Nimrod Castle - an imposing edifice
Another view of Nimrod Castle
They take security seriousl y in the Golan Heights
The sun sets over the Sea of Galilee
Our youth hostel outside Tiberias
Nice to see that Israeli bureacracy is as self-contradictory as any other!
The Bread Miracle Church at Tabgha
Gun culture really is a tad too entrenched here, methinks...
Is it a UFO? No, it's the Church of St Peter at Capernaum
The Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth
Crusader-style light fixtures in Acre
Christian gets into the shisha lifestyle in Acre's Old Town
I had a puff or two too (to see if I could get the word two in three times)
The lobby of our fantastic hotel, the Akkotel, built right into the old city walls
Seafood in the Arab market
Mmmmm! Yummy baklava in the Arab market
The obligatory herbs shot
Looking back at Acre from the harbour boat trip
In the Mediaeval underground city
On the border with Lebanon
Not milk, seawater surging!
The sun sets over the Mediterranean
Watch it disappear
The Templar Tunnel
I'm sure the arches weren't designed as car parking spaces!
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