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Bet Shean is an ancient city with a tel in the middle. The tel was abandoned as the actual city in the 5th century B.C. because the city had grown so large. It had all the features of a Roman city of its time - theatre, hippodrome, amphitheater, public ...

... location of Jericho.  Modern Jericho is under Palestinian authority, so we are unable to visit that city.  The drive from Bet She'an to Qumran took us form the beautiful, green Israel to the dry, desert portion of Israel.  Second ...

... a time machine.   Less than an hour from the modern city of Tel Aviv, we found ourselves entering an ancient world in Bet Guvrin-Maresha National Park.  Maresha is mentioned in the Bible as one of the cities of Judea, existing before the 9th ...

... walk the distance from where my friend would park her car to the Old City... To compensate, my friend drives me to Bet Gimal, a Catholic monastery outside Jerusalem. My friend is Protestant (and proud of it). Although I have known her long despise of ...

... HYRAX ALL OVER AS WELL AS A MATING PAIR OF HUGE VULTURES ALONG WITH QUITE A FEW OTHER INTERESTING BIRDS. THEN IT WAS TO BET SHIEN (SP) WHICH IS AN ANCIENT ROMAN CITY VERY WELL PRESERVED. THEN TO EIN QALT WHICH LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE GRAND CANYON WITH A ...

... After the first meal Friday night there is "story time" where around the table people tell stories or remarks, sometimes about Bet Chabad, sometimes about religion and sometimes just funny anecdotes. It's a special feeling in the air, and almost every ...

... that later!). For dinner, we drove into Nazareth. We weren't too far from the only major tourist attraction there (a church....I bet you could have guessed), but we couldn't go in anyway because it was too late. Interesting fact: Nazareth is ...

Yesterday was the Melbourne Cup day and I am happy to say a few of us went to the Crown to watch and bet a few dollars and I won!  Not that I bet alot of money and won alot of money but hey, a win is a win!  With only 15 minutes left before the ...

... ranger was. Really nice guy. What then ensued was probably an hours worth of confusion as we trotted around saying, "Yetale Abera bet?" to everything that moved. No, not quite, but still... we had a gaggle of excitably helpful young men herding us ...

... , then the total bet was multiplied by 2, and if there was a KO in the round in which the double was accepted, then the bet was multiplied by 3. The scoring system is very similar to backgammon. At any rate, my two pieces of advice are not to bet Muay ...

... roots. However, if Andi bottles out of aforementioned bungee jump she has to be my bitch for the duration of the trip. Shortly after the bet was made I text everyone I thought might have had a wax to gauge the pain on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being fine, 10 ...

... done but people seem to be on it all the time.  Anyways i decided it was time to trim the old beard!! Now my beard is a bet with Kimi, im not meant to shave it until the next time i see her.  The bet stands at $10 but im allowed to shave the ...

... , but now I was traveling with 25 good friends, including Yuval and Bambi. Our first tour of the day was Bet She'an, the Greek Scythopolis dating back to the 4th century BC.  It was an important stop for caravans ...

Cold? Cold? u bet it's cold! I got up this morning in my sleeping bag and i could see my breath hovering overhead!! Oh and don't bother with the gloating e-mails about the apparent heat wave covering the UK at present, I have had it all many times ...

... year in Bangkok means that I'm celebrating another birthday here! Yup, on February 5 I turned the big 2-8 (In Thai: Yii Sip Bet). Still holding on to my twenties but they are quickly slipping away! My birthday was a bit low-key this year, and that ...

... I live 8 hours from the capital and 1.5 hours up a mountain, there is DSTV in my village in Uganda which plays BET. Now at first I was excited to see music videos because it was unexpected entertainment but then I thought exporting this rap culture to ...

... in the New Testament derives from Har Megiddo (Hebrew) meaning Mount of Megiddo." (From Wikipedia =]) We then went to a place called Bet Shean for lunch and to see these amazing ruins from the time of the Roman Empire, we were walking were the Romans did ...