Olive Tree Hotel Jerusalem

Dear Friends, We arrived in Tel Aviv and took a taxi to the Olive Tree hotel, were we are staying till Monday.  Our first meal in Jerusalem was great.  They have more ways of serving vegetables and salads than I have ever seen.  We spent ...

... Emmaus to have our last lunch in the lovely sunlit dining room around an ancient olive tree giving our beautiful Olive Tree Hotel its name. Patricio and Damian show up with official looking "pilgrim certificates" and roses for the ladies. There ...

... right now so it definitely is over a  tour group's budget!  Kathy - I should have had Richard stand next to the Olive tree so you would have a perspective.  It was HUGE around.  Like six adults linking hands around big.  Height - ...

... ;On Thursday we spent time packing and pinicing together at a local park. We pulled 3 suitcases and a backpack over to the Olive Tree Hotel to be stored until our return. And now, today, we are in Tiberias where it is very green and far ...

... Still, it is hard for me to focus and recollect, so I go outside to a corner of the garden and pray touching an old olive tree.  Next to the Garden is the Grotto of the Betrayal, a cave where the apostles are said to have fallen asleep "a ...

... place he took us to was the site of where the last supper was held. The room is quite bare with only an alter with an olive tree given by the pope. The olive tree is to signify the Mount of Olives where Jesus was to be betrayed shortly after this supper. ...

... , however the buses full of tourists were flowing just like the waves of the ocean. We have seen the Gethsemane gardens where the olive tree's are apparently from the time of Jesus. They definitely looked really old. It was an oasis in the middle of the ...

... incredible country. To be standing on a 5,000 years old city like the port of Yaffo in Tel Aviv o near an 3,000 years old olive tree is just indescribable.   I went there for business not knowing what to expect. With all the news about bombs, war ...

... she'd taken a vow of silence and simply spent the days working in the sunny garden in quiet contemplation overlooking the domes of Jerusalem. After a while, we walked back down to the road passing in front of the Golden Gate, and around to come in to ...

... as the sun sat in the west and created a beautiful backdrop for the mountains of the Holy Land. We reach Jerusalem in the early evening at the Olive Tree Hotel. But our day is not yet done. We have dinner and again return to our tour. This evening we ...

... as a Greek Orthodox Church now.  Pope John Paul II came to Mt Nebo in the year 2000 and donated a memorial and an olive tree. There is a story that Moses and his group were besieged at Nebo and they threw down their sticks.  The sticks turned ...

... way to Jerusalem. Its said to be the biggest dead city in Syria but its hard to appreciate its size as an olive tree plantation is surrounding it. We could only see about 3 or so buildings that were still intact and so we visited only these ...

... their biggest marketing angle being items made of olive wood.  As you might have guessed, that is the wood from an olive tree.  (I later learned from a woman who manned a woman's union/Palestinian museum that the olive season lasts only a few ...

... told us that 91% of Jordanian children go to school and school is mandatory to the 10th grade. Many farmers are in this area - one olive tree can make $100 in a good season. Jordan produces a lot of olive oil, the trees have cyclical good and bad years. ...

... so far in the distance Israel. Mount Nebo is famous as the final burial ground of Moses. Pope John Paul II visited here and an olive tree was planed in his honor. The top of mount Nebo has a great view. The first church was closed for renovation.There was ...

... toured the ancient Medieval city of Rhodes. It was built by the knights of St. John: knights in the Crusades who had left Jerusalem after the Crusades had failed (the timing here is a little unclear-this was built in the 1500-1600's. They initially built ...

... pretty much made it all over Greece and dropped buildings and statues behind him everywhere he went. I was reading a little about Jerusalem, and apparently he left his mark there too. As we were walking out, we saw an inscription that mentioned Galleo. ...

... , allowing us concentrated looks at the various regions within the Jewish State: the Galil, the Golan Heights, the Negev Desert, Jerusalem, the Mediterranean coast, the Judean Desert and Eilat on the Red Sea. BBYO is a youth led organization, which means ...