Our first stop of the day was the old city of Jaffa, which is adjacent to Tel Aviv. You might remember that Jaffa is where Jonah, when fleeing from God, boarded a ship to Tarshish. Jaffa (or Joppa) is also the place where Peter (Acts 11) saw a vision of the sheet being lowered with animals.
Next, we travelled north along the Mediterranean coast to Caesarea Maritime. This city was built by Herod the Great over a period of 12 years; Herod had a summer palace here, along with a Roman theatre and Hippodrome, overlooking the Mediterranean. There were many ruins of the city to see and places where they are still excavating parts of the old city.
Just north of Caesarea, we stopped to see a Roman aquaduct that transported water over a distance of 25 miles to Caesara.
Crossing the mountainpass to the East, we came to the ruins of Megiddo, biblical Armageddon. Twenty-six layers of ruins have been unearthed at this archealogical site. We also made our way down 180 steps through a shaft and tunnel, built by King Ahab's engineers, which was used to bring water to the city.
Below is a view from Megiddo of the Valley of Jezreel.
Our final destination of the day was the beautiful port city of Haifa. We arrived in the late afternoon, had a delicious dinner together as a group, and are staying in the German-colony of Haifa at the Colony Hotel.
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