Today we took a nice drive along the Mediterraneancoast up to Cesarea. Great ruins of an old city and palace built by King Herod. It was pretty cool. A huge restored amphitheater and palace out over the water, an unbelievable port and huge light house, hippodrome for chariot races and a temple for Ceasar. Also a fabulous aqueduct ran from the mountains to this site for fresh water. Many parts still standing along the beach (impressive) and into the landscape as we drove towards Haifa. The aqueduct we visited was on the beach, so I quickly ran and dipped my feet in the Mediterranean. We won't be back here as we'll be in the Red Sea, so had to do it! found some beach glass which I would like to think is old Roman Glass, which I can't describe here now.
Now we are on our way to a Druse village for lunch.
Had a great lunch of grilled Chicken Hearts on a skewer for lunch. go figure. I could barely eat them all. Then a little shopping. The Druse people are a moslem minority throughout the Middle East. They keep to themselves and have sort of a secret culture. This Druse man invited me in to his shop where I bought a table runner his daughter hand wove on a loom. Then he gave me a thank you gift of a ceramic plate with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth on it. Very touristy, but very sweet.
We drove in to Haifa and went to see a Bahai (sp?) temple gardens that were unbelievable. No time to explain their beliefs, but worth looking into any of their temple sites in the states if they exist.
That evening we spent our last night in Tel AViv. Signa and I didn't even go out for dinner, just ate our leftover lunches and then walked along the boardwalk again anmd got Gelato.
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