Galilee - Dan

you can see the water running out of the stone

here there is a little bigger flow

another place with just a small flow

here you can see all the small slows gathering into a proper stream

and the rapids begin

Ok so I lied the last post is not going to be the last post about the Galilee trip. Dan was an amazing place and I just could not not talk about it. It is where the headwaters of the Jordan begins. There is a spring that pumps out over a thousand gallons a minute that bubbles right out of the rocks. It is an amazing site to watch the waters rise and come together and turn into rapids as it flows down towards the Sea of Galilee. I really wish we had time to join the rafters heading down the Jordan. There is supposed to be class 6 rapids on the way to the sea of Galilee.


The Tell at Dan was pretty cool also. there is a huge, or assumed to be, alter that was there; as well as a synagogue and a small housing area that has been reconstructed that really let us see what it was like to live in that time. It was impressive to see how small the houses really were and how many people it is assumed that lived in them. We were told that three generations was the normal in a single home. The parents, the children, the male children's wives, and their kids would share the house.


Caves carved into the wall for idols

our own idol

We also headed up to Caesarea-Phillipi and saw the place where it is believe Jesus spoke with the Disciples and called Peter the rock and spoke of the gates of Hell. There is a pagan alter up there that some believe was called the gates of Hell and they believe this is the rock upon which Christ was going to build His church. Take that as you may, but it was an interesting site