Day 12, Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane

We are at the Mt. of Olives there is a valley below us and across the way is Jerusalem.

Tombs

You can see across the Dome of the Rock it has the gold dome.

I walked where Jesus walked! What an incredible journey!

This is a close up (I love my camera) of the Golden gates on the Eastern wall (home of dome of the rock) across the way from the Mt. of Olives, those are Muslim tombs out front of it, blocking the entrance.

Susan at the Mt. of  Olives, amongst the olive trees. 

We are closer to the tombs, there are thousands upon thousands.They believe you can't be buried or creamated.. To each his own!

They bring rocks to the tombs

and food and light candles

These are tombs with-in a tomb, the length of the box is as long as the Ferber the longest bone in your body, the width is as wide as the head. TMI

We walk down to the church, nice walking path..

wait.. It's a road, there are many one lane, not one way roads.

Garden of Gethsemane

Yep this is it just a small garden with about 25 or so Olive trees

Church at Garden of Gethsemane

We had a chance to offer up our thanks and praise to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have an awesome life, and I am forever thankful!

The Golden Arches directly across from the Garden of Gethsemane. If I'm getting this right we are seeing the platform built by Herod to make a flat living area the platform is about 23 acres in total that houses the Dome of the rock.

I think of the detail in this church and how amazing the architect is.

Finally saw a shepard in the field with his sheep, you have to look close he has a white head dress and the little specks are his sheep!