We'll start off the last Galilee entry with a castle. Nimrod's Fortress is named after a hunter mentioned in Genesis. This is the view from the keep.
This is part of a floor mosaic of a synagogue in Sepphoris. The National Parks people decided the design was pretty enough to put a roof over.
This is the most famous mosaics in Israel.
Akko is a town most famous for its crusader ruins. The crusaders in this city were hospitallers, fighting medics. This picture shows one of the huge halls they built.
The crusaders headquarters also had secret passageways so they can move troops or send messages without anyone knowing.
This is just a bad idea all around.
A caravansari is like an ancient truck stop. Merchants would store their goods on the first floor and stay the night on the second floor. This way you can protect your goods while your waiting for your ship to arrive.
Here is Akko harbor on the Mediterranean Sea. As you can see, the weather was really nice that day.
You can buy a boatload of oranges on the boardwalk.
Haifa has a Jerusalem Center connection. When Hunter was trying to get the Center approved he ran into a law that said no religion could build anything in Israel without having ties to the land before 1900. We were able to find a tie in the Haifa Cemetery where a missionary was buried in 1895.
These gardens are owned by the Bahai religion. The religion combines the best parts of other religions. Below is the city of Haifa.
We stopped by a monastery on top of Mt. Carmel. Here Elijah showed up the priests of Baal. (For the full story, see 1 Kings 18). The other class was stuck here for 5 hours because their bus broke down. They caught up in the afternoon and even beat us back to the center.
Here's an aqueduct just outside of Caesaria Maritima. This was used by the Romans to get fresh water into the city from Mt. Carmel.
Here's all that is left a port at Caesaria Maritima. This city was suffered lots of damage from earthquakes.
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