Bucket List: Caesarea, Sands of Time
Israel, Caesarea The original article was first published in this blog in 2016. Caesarea was an ancient port and administrative city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Located between the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, this ancient city sits within the Caesarea National Park. If you like history and are visiting Israel or the surrounding regions, I highly recommend a side trip to Caesarea. For me, my visits to Caesarea were the fulfilment of a personal bucket list item. ****************** Caesarea is a small town in central Israel. It is located along Israel's Mediterranean coastline and is situated 45km north of Tel Aviv and a similar distance south of the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. Caesarea was built sometime between 25 to 13 BC by Herod the Great (a.k.a. Herod I). In the Bible, Herod I was described as the ruler who ordered the "Massacre of the Innocents" based on a prophecy at the time of the birth of Jesus. Walking amongst the Sands of Time,