Today I took my first organized tour to northern Israel traveling along the Mediterranean Sea. Caesarea is chocked full of Roman, Byzantine and Crusader ruins and most famously housed two of King Herod's palaces complete with baths, a port, a cathedral, a theater and an aqueduct. Saint Paul was sent here but managed to get sent to Rome where he was eventually put to death. Haifa is the third largest Israel city and has the largest port. We stopped at a lookout at the top of the city and were able to look down at the Baha'i gardens. We passed by the German colony consisting of houses built by Germans who assisted with excavating in the northern part of Israel in the 1800's. Acre, aka Akko, is the most preserved Crusader city in the world. It
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