These pictures are from Jericho. If you look at map 15 in the back of the Bible you can see about half way up the mountain a monastery (in between the leaves of a palm tree). We walked up there, and that's where these pictures are from. We were told that up higher there was a monastery from the crusader times (on top of the highest mountain, the top looks squared), we were told that we weren't going to go up because they don't take people up there. Then all of the sudden we were told that we were going to go up, the head monk...I don't know what you call him, but he said that he hadn't ever met a group like us and that he really liked us and wanted to take us up to the top. So we went. We found out later that it had been about 10 years since they had taken a group to the top.