6.02.2007

6/2 - Jerusalem

What we had seen yesterday at the Dead Sea and Massada was incredible but today's portion of the tour was absolutely fantastic. We took a tour of Jerusalem - primarily the Old City's four quarters.

Absolutely incredible to see such a quantity of things that have so much history and that you've heard about for so long in person - especially in such an incredibly short span of time.

I couldn't possibly describe - or take enough pictures - to explain it all but I'll provide several below. You can get all of them from today here - or all of them (ever) here.

An overview of the city:
Mt. Olive:
The location of The Last Supper (the room is completely different than it would have been then, but the location...):
A covered street in the Old City with shops:
The Wailing Wall and The Temple Site:
The Trinity:

6 comments:

Whitney said...

Very cool!

Sheila said...

great pictures. it looks like an incredible trip.

Anonymous said...

What a trip you are on, Sweetie! This is one you will remember forever. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Emily said...

Your posts have been great-- especially with the photos! It must be amazing to be in a place with such incredible history everywhere you go.

Anonymous said...

Was the Last Supper actually in that building or just on the site? It doesn't look that nice in any pictures I've seen of the Last Supper.

jimhalberg said...

The site of the Last Supper is kind of their best guess at where it would have happened.

The room itself has been through a lot of different owners since then so it definitely looks very different. Most recently it was actually a mosque!