We went to spent Rosh HaShanah doing absolutely nothing on the Kinneret There was only one thing wrong with it….
I cannot sit on my ass doing nothing (literally… I cannot sit on my ass… I got… you know…=/ )
So I woke up in the morning and run up to Sussita….
Now, Sussita comes from the word ‘Sus’ – horse in Hebrew. If you think it has a funny name in Hebrew, wait to hear the Latin name – Hippos =). That doesn’t come from hippo but it means Greek word hippos – horse.
The ruin city sits on a hill above the Kinneret, but the road to it is theatrically closed, but in fact you can just the go over barrier and go up =) Walk around the old city main street and some of the houses (both older and newer. And in the end of the street a wonderful view over the kinneret =)
Take Care
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Sussita from below
Sussita from above, Some argue that it looks like a horse head and that’s why it called Hippos (horse in Greek)… I don’t see it =)
It’s always “fun” to walk in the Golan Heights… there is always the danger you might step on a landmine…
The main street of Sussita with heads of columns
Water pipe that was buried under the main street of Sussita.
An Ottoman building made from basalt rocks, it used to serve the IDF, but knew it is used by the archaeological submissions of the university of Haifa that digs here
An explanation hanged on the building about the archaeological works that keep going on the site.
A view of the Kinneret and the Western Galilee from Sussita
Restored Marble pillars on the north-east church
Another view on the Kinnerret
An Army bunker and a cable to lift supply from the days the place used to be an Israeli army post
The signs on the road going down to the site warning that the road is closed to any kind of traffic, but you can still go down =)
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