Haifa, Mount of Beatitudes, Sea of Galilee, Capernaum and Jordan River

December 14, 2022
001 - IMG_7263 Haifa sits on the slopes of Mount Carmel, facing the Mediterranean Sea. The Bah'ai Gardens, form part of the Bah'ai World Center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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017 - IMG_0238 Bah'ai Shrine - a golden dome, marble walls, granite pillars and manicured gardens cascading down a slope of Mount Carmel make the Bah'ai Shrine in Haifa a...
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002 - IMG_0230 The Bah'ai Gardens...
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003 - IMG_0231 Beautiful and well maintained garden...
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005 - P1190380 Bronze light pole in the garden...
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008 - IMG_0233 Imagine the amount of labor hours required to maintain the gardens...
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009 - P1190383 ...and its annual costs...
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015 - IMG_0237 Haifa's former Mayor Amram Mitzna described the gardens as the eighth wonder of the world...
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020 - P1190389 Bah'ai temple...
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022 - IMG_0241 Beautiful trimmed orange tree...
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024 - IMG_0242 Main entrance to the Ba'hai temple...
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027 - IMG_0245 Garden outside of the Bah'ai temple...
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026 - IMG_0244 The garden terrace that overlooks the slope of its gardens at Mount Carmel... all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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028 - P1190393 Orange tree with fallen oranges on the ground...
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018 - P1190388 Not very big, roughly 2 to 2 1/2 inches in size.
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030 - P1190395 A very interesting tree with unusual branches...
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031 - IMG_0255 Another view of the unusual tree and the beautiful lamp post on the RHS...
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033 - IMG_0258 No money was spare on the gardens...
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