We are now staying down south of the Dead Sea at an active archaeological site known as Biblical Tamar at En Hazeva. Back to day 3: We went to 3 National Parks that contain ruins, of course! The first one was Hazor which is one of the cities destroyed by Joshua as the Israelites made the conquest of the promised land. It also contains ruins from the time of Solomon.
Our next stop was Dan. We took a lovely hike through trees and along the headwaters of the Jordan River to an ancient Israelite sacred site from the time of Jeroboam.
Then we went to the site of Banyas, which was Caesarea Philippi, in the bible. The vegetation was beautiful and it also contained streams that run into the Jordan river. It had some interesting temple in the rock to the Greek god, Pan.
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