We started the day by going to Tel Bet Shemesh and when we got their we saw a live, archeological dig. I took a piece of pottery from the site, apparently it's a couple thousand years old!
We also went underground into a water well. It was man made and had a small hole on the top that the people would get the water from.
Then we went to the Valley of Elah and saw where David conquered Goliath! I picked up 5 stones and tossed one in a sling.
After that we visited rock quarries in a national park. It took apparently 10-20 years to make one hole in the caverns... there are hundreds and thousands of these holes in Jerusalem. Some of the holes are 3-4000 years old. They made these holes to get the limestone inside the ground to make buildings/houses.
Next we went to a family burial cave. It was filled with paintings of various real and mythical creatures.
We had lunch at a gas station. Most of us ate snitchzel which is a breaded chicken breast sandwhich with hummus... Very delicious!
Next door to the gas station was a recently excavated collesium. It was awesome to look at and apparently this finding made the area go from being regarded as a small city from the past to now being considered a major city from the past.
A little while later we went to the largest tank museum in the world. It was a real nice place:
At night, we went to Jaffa and we got an excellent view of Tel Aviv from Jaffa
The interesting Bible location in Jaffa is a building that Peter first had his vision about the Jews being able to eat all types of food. Here is the door to that building:
It's a little past midnight here now so I better hit the bead before we begin our next exciting adventure later today (8am) going to Caessarea Phillipi.
I feel like you would make a really great tour guide.
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