Tiberias

... and the well preserved mosiacs of a 4th century AD synagogue floor.   To get there, we drive through the city of Tiberias whose busy streets are full of so many double parked cars that it feels like an obstacle course to find a lane that is ...

Finally, some good exercise!  We wake up bright and early for a morning hike in the Golan Heights, a disputed territory that Israel captured from Syria in the Yom Kippur war.  Yael, our guide, has us play a fun game as we trek down the ...

... map of eastern Golan.   We find the cherry trees, we find the UN monitoring vehicles that patrol the border between Syria and Israel, we find the kibbutz, but we don't find people to ask where the you-pick fields are.  The hours of the day ...

... at Vered Hagalil, we call it a night and happily doze off to sleep.  It was the end of our ninth day in Israel.  We have explored Tel Aviv, Zichron Ya'akov, Haifa, Akko and Rosh Hanikrah.  We have reached a milestone in our itinerary as ...

... your way, not getting hung up on "seeing the movie", and expecting the unexpected. We are so close to the northern most town of Israel, Metulla, that we decide to swing by and take a look.  If you squint your eyes and don't read the Hebrew signs, ...

... Nazareth it's relatively easy to catch a bus to anywhere, so we set out in the morning and hopped on the bus to Tiberias.  From Tiberias, Travis and I had intended to bicycle around the famous sea, but expense and ease of travel and the fact that it ...

... , shot 5 people driving home from work. Saying a fond goodye to Rotem's family and many thanks for the tasty cooking, I headed to Tiberias. As soon as I got there I rented a bike and went hard out for a 40km round-trip to visit all the Christian ...

... the hotel. The next morning, we drove to the Sea of Galilee.  Our hotel for the next three nights is located in Tiberias.  We were fortunate to have a room with a beautiful view of the sea.  Unfortunately, we nearly suffocated from the ...

We left our hotel in BEAUTIFUL Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee. Then we went to the Mount of Beatitudes and we stood were Jesus would have stood in the Matthew 5:1. We then went to Tabgha, which is a german church on the sea of Galilee, we were supposed ...

... sites. It is also very significant for Christians because Jesus is said to have preached here and performed many miracles. Tiberias is settled on a hillside with a compact marina and promenade along the lakeside with settlements rising up the hillside ...