Photos from the farm, Bethlehem, around Israel, and around Petra & Jordan

I pulled all these off the internet due to the aforementioned South African phone incident, shoutout to Google Image for that. I was able to find plenty of good Petra shots, but finding good pics of some of the other stuff I saw was a bit harder, and some of them are stock photos with watermarks, but for the most part I’m pretty pleased with what I was able to get. Enjoy!

Mar Saba!

The money shot

Courtyard where I saw some of the monks running about

Some of the monks

Daher and Meladeh. Daher’s normally grinning, maybe he was holding back a sneeze

Daoud and some of the older olive trees

Chapel Cave, you can make out the painting of Jesus on the floor

The water tank, vital for the farm’s survival

Very lucky find–sunset over Nahallin and the settlements, from the farm

Bethlehem Lutheran church

Christmastime for Bethlehem (first of three)

The packed Holon cemetery

Yeruham

Ruins outside Yeruham

Another of the many Bedouin camps outside Beersheba and Yeruham

Bnei Netzarim

Some desert scenery on road from Beersheba to the Red Sea

Eilat in the foreground, Aqaba in the distance. Pardon the stock photo’s watermarks, only photo I could really find that shows how close Eilat and Aqaba really are, obviously I didn’t actually get this angle when I was there

Ancient city of Ayla

Sharif bin Hussein Mosque

The fort with the Arab revolt flag still flying high 102 years later

Highway from Aqaba

Wadi Musa

Monoliths outside the entrance

Al Siq, the canyon

Old rainwater system, still intact

Al Khazneh, the famous Treasury

More tombs

Hard workers taking a rest (also gotta love the Bedouin with the Che Guevara shirt)

Village of Bedouin stalls

Great Temple

Qasr al-Bint, temple to the Nabatean god Dushara

Path up to monastery

Ad Deir, the monastery

View of mountains around the monastery in Petra

Sunset over Wadi Musa

King Hussein Street, Amman

Temple of Hercules, with some of his statue’s fingers

Remains of Byzantine church

Umayyad palace

Short-lived resident of the citadel some 2,000 years ago

Roman theater

Duke’s Diwan

Outside of diwan. Old surrounded by new, traditional blended with the modern