Nimrod Fortress and Banias

Today we went to the Golan Heights and saw Nimrod's Fortress and visited Banias. The Fortress was very cool. Mike loved exploring and taking pictures. Banias is the site where Peter testified that Christ was the Messiah, and Christ said "On this rock I will build my church". The cool thing about this site is that it is not the "traditional site" as some of the places we have visited. This is THE place where this happened. So amazing to stand in a place and realize that our Lord stood in that very spot.

We filmed a few podcasts at this location. I also took a turn at the sand verses. This is a VERY heavy metal "thing" that imprints scriptures (pertaining to the particular location) into the sand in several languages. It is very cool - Spencer would have lots of fun with it.

At lunch we asked for a lemon for our water, and the picture of the cut up lime was what we got. Not sure what that was all about, but it made us chuckle.

On the way home the GPS directed us a different way. We thought we would give it a try. The road was very narrow and I was nervous about the fact that you couldn't see over the ridges. I was worried about on coming traffic. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about - at least not on coming traffic. Nobody else was crazy enough to be driving on this road! The further we went down the road, the less ROAD was actually there. There were huge potholes and places where the sides of the road just dropped off. Mike had to get out of the car 3 times to direct Dan on the best path of where to go. We went on for about 12 Km this way and then came to a sign that said we could go no further because we were entering a live military training area. GREAAAAT! Thankfully we had just passed a major intersection, so we turned there and made it back to the hotel without further incident.