Israel & Jordan 2023: Nazareth Village

Once the visit to the Basilica of Annunciation was completed, next stop for the day was the Nazareth Village. The Nazareth Village is an open air museum that reconstructs and reenacts village life in Galilee during Jesus' time. I have not been there, but I suspect it's something like the Colonial Williamsburg in the East Coast.

Let me show you some photos.

This was the entrance to the village, which interestingly you reach via the second floor of the building that housed the gift shop.

Consulting my notes, I wrote in my travel journal that our guide lacked a bit of humor, but overall was very competent. Here we met the shepherd, although the only animal present at that time was a donkey.

Showing how they entomb the dead in caves like this.

Guide asked if anyone is interested in going inside the cave. Hubby volunteered and took this photo from inside the cave.

The Nazareth Village was built on agricultural lands that was built on ancient wine press. The grapes were crushed by feet here.

The juice gets captured here.

A visit to the potter.

Sampling of his work.

Olive oil press.

If I'm not mistaken, the olive oil gets collected in these containers.

The carpenter.

The weaver.

Synagogue

Inside the synagogue.

This visit was a very nice diversion from all the religious-leaning sites, that even though this trip was not designed to be a pilgrimmage, the majority of the sites we visited were places mentioned in the Bible.