Swimming

Trip Start May 13, 2006
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Trip End Jun 13, 2006


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Sunday, May 28, 2006

I woke up rested by the Sea of Galilee today. It actually got cold in my room as I slept. I had a weird dream about David Griffith being on a reality TV show. On the show he was suppose to go over to this girls house to get to know her to see if they should get married. I was his consultant on the show, there to help make the decision. Interesting dream. Sorry Wendi.

Today our first stop is a bridge over the Jordan River. We hope to finish early today so we are moving quick. We are in the Golan Heights which was taken by Israel in 1967 as a buffer zone in the fight with Syria. Now the UN has forces there to help control this buffer zone.

We stopped at Tel Dan in the Huleh basin and had a nice nature walk next to one of the springs that feeds the Jordan River bees
bees
 . Dan was the northern most tribe of Israel.

We moved on to Caesarea Philippi or Banias as it is now called. This is the traditional site of the transfiguration of Jesus. Here we had lunch and walked up to the cliffs which had at one time been a monument to Pan.

We then drove to the northern most border of Israel, near Syria and Lebanon. From our vantage point we could look out over the UN controlled zone in Jordan and Lebanon.

On our way back to Ein Gev for an early day we stopped at Qasein to view a first century type home. This was the type of home that would have been in use during Jesus' ministry. With the mud thatched roof it is similar to what the men would have dug through to get their maimed friend to Jesus in Luke 5:17-26.

Finally, we made it back to Ein Gev for some more swimming in the Sea of Galilee.
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