After stopping at the Dead Sea, our next destination was another famous body of water, the supposed "baptism of Christ site" on ...

We had split off from our Fun-for-Less Tour, booking our own earlier flight to Amman and hiring a private guide, so that we could cover ...

In his book Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler notes: The distance between Jerusalem and Cairo is almost impossible to measure. By foot it ...

On our final day in Israel, we made our way south to the eastern Israel-Egypt border crossing. The further south we went, the drier it got...

Israel really has a thing for lookouts. If there is a prominence, it has a lookout on it. But who can blame them when this is the view? ...

One of our excursions took us north towards Mount Hermon, which is situated on the border of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. The Golan Heights...

I thought Jerusalem, with its complex history and many cultures, was intense and that when we went north to Galilee, the pace would be a b...

Capernaum, known as "Capharnaum" in Israel, is located on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee about 30 miles northeast of Jesu...

One of Bob's great disappointments is that our tour did not take us into the heart of Nazareth. There were several churches and monume...

When our group left Jerusalem and headed for Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, we took a wide swing away from the West Bank to visit some ...