Synopsis:
About 10 of us took an early morning walk which included another visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchure, The Armenian Quarter, especially the Cathedral of St. James, many streets through the Christian Quarter.
At 8:00 we left for our day in the desert. The weather has turned good - warmer and clearer. This was more true as we got into the Judean desert.
Places visited today: to the baptismal site commemorating the area in which John the Baptist baptized Jesus; Qumron, the place of the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls; The Dead Sea itself for a float in the water; to Jericho to see a sycamore tree in that town where Zacchaeus climbed the tree to see Jesus. Jesus also cured one, or two blind men, depending on which gospel you are reading), had Mass at the parish of Good Shepherd, and visited Tel Jericho, which shows the 10,000 year old wall which places Jericho as the oldest or one of the very oldest cities in the world, and finally, we drove into the desert some miles to see St. George Monastery, which clings to the side of cliff in what is sometimes called "the valley of death." We returned to our hotel around 5:30.
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