IV Instalment - Day 2 - Caesaria by the Sea

First place of interest on Day 2.

Caesarea by the Sea

The surrounding wall.

Herod's fresh water swimming pool.

The amphitheater - our group went down to the stage and sang a hymn or two.

Columns from the palace and other artifacts.

Special side rooms along the race track.

I think this building at the end was where the prison had stood in the time of Paul.

A gate house with a high window where a soldier could stand and watch or shot through the little gap. "Standing in the gap".

The aqua duct from way up north to Caesarea.

III - Yarkon & Tel Afeq-Antipatris

The tour continued north along the Mediterranean coast. We crossed the Yarkon river and then went inland a little bit to Rosh Ha Ayin (Head of the Springs) to the Yarkon National Park and the Tel Afeq- Antipatris site.

We visited the ruins of the Cardo and the Fortress.

Sat in a rocky hollow under a big shade tree while we heard the history and the Bible stories related to the area.

Last three pictures taken from the Blue Bay Hotel just north of Netanya on the Mediterranean coast. This was our lodgings for the first night. The rest of the tour group joined us at supper time to make up a full compliment of 66 persons. We had a get acquainted meeting after supper where we each introduced ourselves. Helmut had a swim in the pool before supper and several of the younger folks went for a swim in the sea.

II - More of Jaffa (Joppa)

We spent quite a little time walking around Joppa. Several pictures to show you what the area looks like and some of the folks that were with us on tour.

Second from top picture Left to right four brethren from Albania - second person is a missionary to Albania. Several folks mostly from ON sitting on the wall. The brother standing alone with sunglasses on is a missionary to Ghana. The man in the black hat is the Israeli guide.

The all buildings in the misty back ground are in Tel Aviv.

Jabe talked to us about the port where the cedars of Lebanon were brought to Solomon's workers, Jonah, Peter"s vision at Simon the Tanner's home, and Dorcas being raised from the dead.

Walking in some of the narrow streets.

The pomegranate flower.

Tour of Israel 2011

On May 22, 2011 we met 14 other members of the tour group at the Toronto airport and boarded our flight on El Al Israel directly to Tel Aviv at about 1 pm. The nearly 12 hour flight brought us to Ben -Guiron at about 7 am Mon. May 23.

We were met by our Israeli guides and five other members of our group who had arrived from points in Europe and Africa.

The first order of the day was to drive to the hotel to pick up two more of the tour members who came by way of Cyprus.


Our first place to sight seeing was Joppa which is a little south of Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean Sea coast.

Here we walked around and the guide, Philip, gave us some general history and Jabe Nicholson, our host gave us many points to remember and think about as related to the various incidents in the Bible that took place at Joppa.