Jericho, Oldest City in the World
Visit Jericho, the oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth, where 10,000 years of human settlement have left archaeological layers going back to the Natufian period, with the ancient walls and Mount of Temptation above.
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Tel Jericho
Climb the Tel of ancient Jericho where the famous walls described in Joshua stand in excavated remains, the ancient mound representing 10,000 years of continuous human habitation making Jericho the oldest city in the world.
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Hisham's Palace
Visit Hisham's Palace, the extraordinary 8th-century Umayyad winter palace whose mosaic floors are among the finest Islamic art in existence, the Tree of Life mosaic in the diwan considered the most beautiful Islamic mosaic ever made.
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Mount of Temptation
Take the cable car to the Greek Orthodox monastery carved into the cliff face of the Mount of Temptation, the site where Christian tradition places Jesus forty days of fasting and temptation by the Devil before his ministry.
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Elisha's Spring
Visit Elisha's Spring, the ancient water source that the prophet purified according to the Bible and which has provided water to Jericho since prehistoric times, the spring supporting the oasis city in the middle of the desert.
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Jericho Market
Browse the Jericho market in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city center where the famous Jericho dates, considered the finest in the Middle East, are sold alongside other subtropical fruits grown in the warm Jordan Valley climate.
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Jordan Valley Panorama
View the Jordan Valley from the Jericho heights where the extraordinary landscape of the lowest inhabited place on Earth stretches north and south, the Dead Sea visible to the south and the Jordan River snaking through palm groves below.