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Caesarea Slideshow
Caesarea
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Caesarea - the first major man made harbor
This is a top pick! ... or I grew! Maybe someone at home can post the previous picture so we can see the before and after comparison? After Caesarea we hit up another mall for lunch. I am beginning to get frustrated and embarrassed by the fact that we are not ...
My favorite place
This is a top pick! Romans ruins on the water. A cool breeze blowing in from the Mediterranean. Caesarea is my favorite place in Israel. The Romans were known for their engineering innovations. At Caesarea, I saw some of their aqueducts. Fresh water ...
Day of Rest
This is a top pick! Today we just took it easy, went to the beach, a great afternoon nap and in the evening dinner with friends in ...
Roman Holiday in Israel
This is a top pick! ... , get used to having sand and dust in your sandals. Afterwards we went to see the Roman aqueduct (which brought water to Caesarea from Mt. Carmel), and to eat falafel in Karkur at Deborah's Falafel, a very famous stand with excellent falafel and pitas ...
The Theatre, the Races and the Restaurant
Today was the fifth of May and someone had a special birthday, our host. We are off to visit Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. So named because Herod wanted to honour Caesar. (Not so,the boys on the tour!) High Chaparral ...
All around town
... and touch everything! There are STILL archaeological excavations taking place. It was incredible! Caesarea is one of the oldest settlements in Israel...much like Jerusalem. The difference is that Caesarea is really in no way a ...
Day 9 - going Roman
... going Roman Thankfully all heads cleared overnight so we were ready to hit the sites again. Today's destination was Caesarea, once most important port for the Romans. There's a beautiful and still active amphitheatre overlooking the Sea (although ...
Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Megiddo, Nazareth, Cana
... the Grand Beach Hotel in Tel Aviv, we loaded the bus and headed north along the coast. Our first stop was Caesarea, a seaport on the Mediterranean built by King Herod the Great in 20 B.C. and named after Caesar Augustus. It was one ...
Visit to Caesarea and Mt. Carmel
Saw a lot of cool ruins from the roman empire. Caesarea had a beautiful ocean landscape, just breathtaking the sites we saw. We saw a certification (carved in stone) by Pontius Pilate, the ruins of King Herod's palace, roman aquaducts, and so many more ...
Caesarea and Meggido
Caesarea Herod the Great (the one who was ruling when Jesus was born), built the city of Caesarea. It was interesting because most of the time when rulers did some sort of building project, they just revamped a city that was already in existence, but ...
Akko and Caesarea
... , a Muslim history, and a more current history in 1947 when the British were still in control of Palestine. Next we visited Caesarea which was a fascinating city of remains from the time of King Herod(approximately 30BC) in which he built a city in ...
Down By The Sea
... ' God to try to get what I want? "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked..." Galatians 6:7 Next we are off to Caesarea (Maritima) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Wow! Nice place to build a palace Harod! Bath houses, theater, hippodrome ...
North to the Sea of Galilee and Crusader City Akko
The last day of our trip we went north through the West Bank to the Sea of Galilee. Then across the north to the Mediterranean Sea and the crusader city of Akko (Acre). The city of Akko was built by the Crusaders as a port. Many famous crusaders landed ...
To Caesarea
This place was absolutely stunning, check out the pictures. The weather was wonderful. We had a great ...
Carmel, Caesarea, and Christmas in May
... top of Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:42-46), and he proved who the true God is to the prophets of Baal. Then, to beautiful Caesarea, founded by Herod the Great. It is a city that Paul visited three times, and he spent two years in prison there. ...
Day 4
We saw the beautiful theater at Caesarea, where the Apostle Paul would have been tried. What a view of the Mediterannean ...
Our final Day
... nbsp; It was 11am before we finally packed, had breakfast, and were off. Today was our last day in Israel and our chief plan was to experience Caesarea and make it to the airport for our plane. As we traveled south on highway 2 we ...
Caesarea, Haifa, Sea of Galilee
... were upscale and beautiful with fabulous homes along the sunny Mediterranean. Our first stop was the ruins of the ancient town of Caesarea built by King Herod The Great around 100BC. The location was discovered by kibbutz builders in the 1930's but little ...
Sea of Galilee
We are now in Tiberias by the Sea of Galilee. Firstly was a visit to Caesaria Philippi. This is where Jesus asked his disciples who they believed him to be. Peter declarded him to be the Messiah and Jesus responded by blessing him as ...
Caesarea from our Travel Guide
... for the first time in writing by Zenon, an Egyptian official who landedthere for supplies in 259 BC. Strato’s Tower/Caesarea changed hands many times over the next couple centuries. It was captured by Alexander Jannaeus in 103 BC and became part of ...
By the Way of the Sea, to Caesarea
From Tel Aviv we take the ancient route of the Via Maris or Way of the Sea to Caesarea, port city founded by Herod the Great and Roman capital of Palestine. It was a Roman city, complete with theater, aqueducts, hippodrome, and a 2-story ...
Caesarea
... to August is an example of this. His most famous building project is the Second Temple in Jerusalem. A description of both Caesarea's buildings and harbour is found in Josephus's The Jewish War (Book I, 408-415). Recent digs have largely confirmed his ...
Caesarea - Water, Wine and Winston
... Geoff Winston (whose grandfather was a Britsh Jew nee Weinberg) calls us up and tells us he will meet us in 3 hours in Caesarea. Meanwhile he suggests we check out Neot Kedumim an Israeli nature "reserve." Reserve is in quotes, because, as in much ...
Caesarea
The theatre and hippodrome of Caesarea (called Caesarea Maritima, or Caesarea Stratonitis, to distinguish it from Caesarea Philippi in the north) date from the time of Herod the Great. Among other remnants, parts of a Crusader fortress remain, ...
B-Report - Billy Bradford Exploring the Theater
Billy Bradford is our youngest pilgrim on this journey and he has voluteered to be our pint sized B-Report reporter. Watch for him on location for the B-Report as we travel through Isreal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQkxHsX8SY ...
Dec 29 -- Bridge over the Wadi
Before writing about the trip to Kfar Qare, I found the name from the mini-conference in Tel Aviv. Yehuda Elkana, who is president of the Central European Univ in Budapest. His schtick toward the occupation was really in the academic sphere, saying also ...
Reggae and Golf... in Israel?!
... , and we can meet up! There is something about a girl who can golf, and golf well! But back to Caesarea. playing golf in Israel was definitely not something I had ever anticipated doing, especially because the course is private; but now I can check ...
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