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  • Sâo Paulo Church (1602). The façade and majestic stairway are all that remains of this church, perhaps the greatest monument to Christianity in Asia.
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  • Sâo Paulo Church (1602). The façade and majestic stairway are all that remains of this church, perhaps the greatest monument to Christianity in Asia.
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  • Anniversary party for the child of a rich family of Amman. Many girls working in the local high class families came from Muslim countries of Asia like Malaysia, Indonesia or Philippines.
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  • Masada. Under Herod the Great the fortress bacame an enormous muntaintop fortress. At the time of Jewish rebellion against Rome (70 A.D.) the Jewish fighters preferred death to surrender. The Roman camp, nearly intact through the dry climate of the desert, is one of the best survived exemple of Roman military technology.
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  • Dead sea, the road connecting Ein Bokek to Jerusalem.
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  • Dead Sea, moshav Neot Ha-Kikkar, 20km south of Ein Bokek, specializes in state-of-the-art desert agricultural technology. Today many immigrants from Thailand work here as laborers.
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  • To gather data for his geo-archaeological system (GIS), a assistant of prodfessor Talal Akasheh use a teodolite in front of the Obelisk, one of the most important monuments of the Siq, the small canyon that gives access to Petra. With the next step of the project Akasheh, will complete a website for the Jordanian authorities, who can better manage the site, and academicians . He also intends to create a 3D documentation method as well as a non-destructive technique to study the salt content of the weathered monuments.
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  • Western Wall, Jewish whorshippers celebrating Bar Mitzvah.
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  • Old City streets on friday night.
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  • Friday night in Western Jeruslame between Hillel st and Ben Yehuda street.
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  • Northeastern Anatolia. Van Lake. Sheeps on the slopes of the Nemrut Dagi (Mt Nemrut),  mountain rises from the southwestern shore of Lake Van.
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  • Northeastern Anatolia. Van Lake. Landscape near Altinsaç village.
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  • Palmyra, general view of the ruins, in the back the temple of Baal.
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  • Palmyra, the Great Columnade, 1.200 meters long. Successful merchants were celebrated with statues mounted on the columns of this colonnade street.
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  • Mandu. Women working near the Royal Enclave buldings.
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  • Kalamandalam Academy. Khatakali actors do not use verbal expressions but instead use a well developed gestural language with 24 basic hand gestures.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Wadi Hadramawt, once was a important  step of the Incense's Road. The old castle of Haynin, made of mud bricks.
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  • biking in a central square
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  • Street washermen in southern district of Mumbai.
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  • Dead Sea. Ein Gedi Natural Reserve. The Ein Gedi oasis ha a long history. David fled here to escape king Saul as, later, Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the second Jewish revolt (132--135 A.D.) against Roman empire.
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  • Pudong New Area District.
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  • Kerak, the famous crusader castle. The construction began in the 1140s and the  Crusaders called it Crac des Moabites or "Kerak in Moab". Because of its position east of the Jordan River, Kerak was able to control the trade routes from Damascus to Egypt and Mecca. In 1176 Raynald of Chatillon gained possession of Kerak harassing the trade caravans. In 1183 Saladin besieged the castle in response to Raynald's attacks. and after the Battle of Hattin in 1187, Saladin  finally captured it in 1189.
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  • Wadi Rum,the largest wadi in Jordan, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southwest Jordan. Wadi Rum has been inhabited by many human cultures since prehistoric times,  leaving their mark in the form of rock paintings, graffiti. Several Bedouin tribes inhabit the area.<br />
Wadi Rum is known also for its connection with British officer T. E. Lawrence, who based his operations here during the Arab Revolt of 1917–18.
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  • Umm Qais, the small museum of the site of the Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara also called Antiochia or Antiochia Semiramis and Seleucia. Gadara was a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis.
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  • The ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa (Jerash), the "Pompeii of the Middle East". The South Theatre, the largest of Gerasa.
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  • The ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa (Jerash), the "Pompeii of the Middle East". The  imposing columns of immense Artemis Temple.
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  • According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus, landed at India's Malabar Coast, in the year 52, and founded 7 churches before he was martyred in Mylapore. St Thomas converted several local Hindu families to Christianity. The present church was rebuilt in 1900 on the same site of the church founded by St Thomas.
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  • Colonial Houses
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  • Matancherry's Jew street, traditional storehouses utilised from centuries for ginger and others spices trade.
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  • Malabar House hotel.
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  • Khrisna’s temple of Guruvayur near Trichur. The temple own more than 60 elephants.
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  • Calicut,  Martial Arts (kalarippayat) Academy. From South India shaolin monks popularizes martial arts in China.
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  • Northeastern Anatolia. Landscape near Tortum Lake. The valleys between Erzurum and Yusufeli onve were part of the Kingdom of Georgia.
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  • Northeastern Anatolia. Ishak Pasha Palace near Doğubeyazıt. The palace, completed in 1784, is built on a hill at the side of a mountain and is one of the most distinguished and magnificent examples of the 18th century Ottoman architecture.<br />
sides (north, west, south) are steep and sloped. <br />
Inner court. The İshak Pasha Palace is a rare example of the historical Turkish palaces.
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  • Hot air balloons  near Uchisar.
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  • Ortahisar, Hallaç Monastery.
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  • Soganli valley, Yilanli  Kilise.
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  • Cavusin,  the barren vault church of St John the Baptist.
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  • Macau, the historical center.
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  • cultural centre for young artists
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  • The historical Lisboa Casino.
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  • Anniversary party for the child of a rich family of Amman.
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  • Downtown traditional shop, Huseini mosque's reflections.
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  • Zara Mall is one of the trendiest shopping centers of Amman downtown. Popular for the new Jordan's middle class but not still popular for more traditional people.
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  • Amman, downtown. King Hussein street fashion shops.
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  • Amman, downtown. King Hussein street fashion shops.
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  • Contemporary architecture of the Third Circle, a fashionable district full of hotels and embassies.
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  • Shibam, the women work mainly in the countryside.
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  • Candle factory. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Tzfat, weaver of prayer shawl.
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  • Situated on mount Keenan, Sfat, also Tzfat or Safed, the highest Israel's city is the center of Jewhish mysticism, Kabbalah, and one of 4 holy cities of Israel.
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  • Situated on mount Keenan, Sfat, also Tzfat or Safed, the highest Israel's city is the center of Jewhish mysticism, Kabbalah, and one of 4 holy cities of Israel.
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  • Tzfat. Many doors are painted in blue, the colour of heaven. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Caro Synagogue where Yoseph Caro, chief Rabbi of Sfat and author of Shulhan Arukh, studied in 16th century. Old Jewish books.
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  • Tzfat. Caro Synagogue where Yoseph Caro, chief Rabbi of Sfat and author of Shulhan Arukh, studied in 16th century. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Tzfat. Caro Synagogue where Yoseph Caro, chief Rabbi of Sfat and author of Shulhan Arukh, studied in 16th century. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Tzfat. Abuhav Synagogue. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Tzfat. Ashkenazi Ha-Ari Synagogue. Built in 1580, 3 years after the dath of Rabbi Isaac Luria, "Ha-Ari" (our master Rabbi Isaac or "Lion"), in the same  place where this famous mystic led congregants to welcome Shabbat. Tzfat. Abuhav Synagogue. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Bethlehem, nativity church, nativity church.
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  • Bethlehem, nativity church.
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  • Herodion, the man-made, flat mountain, one of the world finest exemples of preserved Roman architecture. Built as fortress and summer palace by king Herod the Great, is also the place where the king was buried. The tomb was discovered in  2007. The cisterns, a network of tunnels and water reservoir under the fortress.
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  • Herodion, the man-made, flat mountain, one of the world finest exemples of preserved Roman architecture. Built as fortress and summer palace by king Herod the Great, is also the place where the king was buried. The tomb was discovered in  2007.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D. Pilgrims. The women may only view the monastery from outside.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Dead Sea. Ein Gedi Natural Reserve. The Ein Gedi oasis ha a long history. David fled here to escape king Saul as, later, Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the second Jewish revolt (132--135 A.D.) against Roman empire. Ibex.
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  • Masada. Under Herod the Great the fortress bacame an enormous muntaintop fortress. At the time of Jewish rebellion against Rome (70 A.D.) the Jewish fighters preferred death to surrender.
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  • Masada. Under Herod the Great the fortress bacame an enormous muntaintop fortress. At the time of Jewish rebellion against Rome (70 A.D.) the Jewish fighters preferred death to surrender. The Roman camp, nearly intact through the dry climate of the desert, is one of the best survived exemple of Roman military technology.
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  • Masada. Under Herod the Great the fortress bacame an enormous muntaintop fortress. At the time of Jewish rebellion against Rome (70 A.D.) the Jewish fighters preferred death to surrender.
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  • Masada. Herod the Great palace built on the rock of the north face of Masada. Under Herod the fortress bacame an enormous muntaintop fortress. At the time of Jewish rebellion against Rome (70 A.D.) the Jewish fighters preferred death to surrender.
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  • Dead Sea. Ein Gedi Natural Reserve. The Ein Gedi oasis ha a long history. David fled here to escape king Saul as, later, Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the second Jewish revolt (132--135 A.D.) against Roman empire.
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  • Dead Sea, salt crystals edge mineral-rich waters. Also the king Herod the Great bathed here.
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  • Dead Sea, moshav Neot Ha-Kikkar, 20km south of Ein Bokek, the artist Jojo Ohayon design sculptured metal vases and furnishings in a modern style.
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  • Dead Sea, moshav Neot Ha-Kikkar, 20km south of Ein Bokek, specializes in state-of-the-art desert agricultural technology. Today many immigrants from Thailand work here as laborers.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Mt Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Ganesh Festival, the most important of Mumbay, when more than 15.000 statues of this elephant-god are  submerged in the sea at Chowpatty Beach.
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  • Caro Synagogue where Yoseph Caro, chief Rabbi of Sfat and author of Shulhan Arukh, studied in 16th century. Old Jewish books.
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  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). The religioyus shopping center for Christian pilgrims. Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • the Umayyad Great Mosque, pilgrims.
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  • Northeastern Anatolia. Hosap Castle near Guzelsu village, a truck stop village on the road to the Iran and Iraqi borders. Built in 1643 by the local Kurdish chieftain  Mahmudi Suleyman.
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  • The Siq, a narrow canyon 1.2 km long, was the principal entrance to Petra from the east.
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  • Sunset on the canyons that gave access to Petra.
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  • The development of nearby tourist town Wadi Musa affects more and more the preservation of Petra.
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  • Siq al-Barid, or "Little Petra", was a self-contained satellite community of Petra. Siq al-Barid, a diminutive version of Petra, was probably a caravanserai where the camel caravans that came to trade at Petra stopped to do business and to rest before completing their journeys.
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  • The Great Temple. From the 3rd century on, natural disasters and political tides gradually eclipsed Petra until it was  abandoned and erased from the memory of all but local Bedouin.
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  • The Royal Tombs, the series of large tomb facades carved out of the west face of Al-Khubta mountain.The  Palace Tomb (left) and Corinthian Tomb (right).
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  • The theatre view from a tomb. The badly weathered theatre is what remains of the theatre that was first built by Nabateans, heavily influenced by Roman architects. It was later refurbished by the Romans after they had annexed Petra.
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