Western Wall
During a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem, we got taken to the Western Wall (aka Wailing Wall) and the surrounding area.
Posted on 2009-04-16 by
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
I visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It is built on the site where Jesus Christ was supposedly buried.
The Stone of the Anointing
A tomb
The supposed tomb of Jesus Christ
The Greek Orthodox Catholicon
The imovable ladder.
The ladder hasn't been moved in over a hundred years
Posted on 2009-04-14 by
Palestine
I’m not going to go into the details here, but we almost got kidnapped on entering Palestine. After that, I wasn’t particularly interested in taking out my camera to take photos. Thankfully Vicki Argyle took some photos of our visit. Since things were a little stressed during our trip, we didn’t do anything beyond taking a taxi to Bethlehem, visiting the Church of Nativity and getting taken to an overpriced souvenir shop where we had to buy some crappy products (taxi drivers must take tourists to a souvenir shop apparently).
Inside of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.
The Church of Nativity is quite run down, but spectacular none the less. It is supposedly the birth place of Jesus Christ, although it is highly doubtful that this is the correct spot as there are no records of exactly where he was born.
If you look carefully at the bottom of the doorway, you can also see where the slab of stone has been worn away during the past 1400+ years of foot traffic.
I wasn’t allowed into the church with shorts on (apparently that is impolite), so our taxi driver arranged for me to wear a strange skirt thing around my waist.
You need to step up to go through the doorway I am standing in front of, but despite that I was still taller than the height of the door. This is because the church was built in 565 AD when humans tended to be a lot shorter than they are now.
Posted on 2008-09-12 by
People in Israel
Someone complained that I don’t post enough photos of people! The reason I don’t normally post photos of people is because I’m not very good at taking them and I often never get around to asking permission. To keep my readers happy, here are some photos from Israel containing real live human beings 
This is one of the few photos I took of people while in Israel. Vicki Argyle is on the left and Gemma Christian is on the right.
Vicki Argyle and I on top of Davids Castle in the Old City of Jerusalem.
One of numerous ugly photos of me taken by Vicki.
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Tower of David
We visited the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem. The tower is named after David, the former King of Israel (from David and Goliath fame). It was built around 200 BCE, but has been successively replaced/built on over the years.
The following are more parallel 3D images.
To view the 3D photos, look through the page and merge the two images into one.
Posted on 2008-08-14 by
