Day Three on the Jesus Trail

'Horns of Hattin' from the south

Wanting to complete the trail, we were up early on October 25th to catch the 8:15 bus from Nazareth Central Bus Station to Kibbutz Lavi. We managed to arrive there about 40 minutes later and along with Dorothy, walked to the Kibbutz Hotel, to have my Jesus Passport stamped. We lingered over an Americano, and then headed up to walk the top of the Horns of Hattin. 

Sea of Galilee as seen from the 'Horns of Hattin'
between Mt. Nitai, Mt. Arbel

One View from the top of 'Horns'

Druze Shrine to Moses Father-in-law, Jethro

What a view! 

The descent was rather steep, and halfway down, we detoured to Nebi Shu'eib. There we stopped to eat our bag lunch, and observe a shrine of the Druze Religion, where Moses father in law, Jethro is honored as a prophet and founder of their religion.  The Druze have distinctive dress, and head gear, but they were very shy, and declined my offer to take a picture.  

Mt. Arbel - seen from Wadi Hamam

We then proceeded to Wadi Hamam, a rather rocky and torturous descent, on a hot day, and were quite thrilled to arrive there just in time for the bus to Tiberias, and once there, grabbed the 431 to Nazareth.   Just as we disembarked from the bus, the hospital chaplain, who was driving by at that moment, recognized us and offered to take us to the hospital.  we who were weary from about 15 kms. of walking in the hot sum were very thankful.   'Shookran'  the arabic for 'thank you', rang out many times from us weary travellers.  It was another great day in Israel!