A very interesting day today. We attended church at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church. The service was almost entirely in Arabic. Then we went to Herodium which is the palace built by Herod the Great. It was amazing. He first built the mountain and then a palace on the top with sauna type rooms - hot, cold and warm. Also a synagogue. Then we had time to walk around a market with shops on the side of the street - vegetables, shoes, dollar store, meat market with raw meat hanging from the front. We ate a falafel from a street vendor. On the way back to the hotel we saw this shepherd tending his sheep. An amazing cultural experience.
