I didn’t do a Photo Friday post last week because I was still in the process of uploading my trip photos to Flickr and was overwhelmed by the idea of choosing the first picture to post here. So I decided to approach it differently and pick one from each stop we made. Even that proved difficult — I did after all upload more than 1,700 photos! So let me take you on a little photo journey, featuring just a handful of my favourite snaps:
Jerusalem
View of the Old City from the Mount of Olives
Spices in the Old City souk
Caesarea
Ruins of coastal city built by Herod the Great
Bethlehem
What stuck me about Bethlehem were the stunning views…
… and the steep, narrow winding streets
Herodium
(also spelled Herodion)
Palace and fortress built by Herod the Great c.26 B.C.E. in the Judean hills just south of Jerusalem, with spectacular views out to the desert and the Dead Sea
Jericho
Sea of Galilee
Jordan River
Ein Gedi
Male ibex fighting in the cliffs of the nature reserve
Mount Sinai
Wadi Rum
Petra
Amman
I include this purely because strangely it’s the only photo I took in Amman. I was tired and preoccupied with the last-minute shopping we needed to do before flying home, but it’s still hard to believe I didn’t think to take shots of the vibrant downtown area with its clothes shops and fruit markets and street stalls selling everything from pens to hair products to prickly pears.
This was such a hard edit to do, but it was a great exercise in picking out photos to print and enlarge for my walls. I can’t wait to put together a large framed collage. The rest of the photos are up on Flickr, here.
