St. George's Monestary

So, after we were done at Jericho we drove to St. George's Monestary, which was AMAZING! It is an ancient Greek Monestary that is still fully functional and it was built into the mountainside. SO COOL! I will just let the pictures do the talking:

My class and I make the long hike up the mountain to see the monestary.

Here it is!!!!!!! The picture doesn't do it justice- it was simply breathtaking. And we lucked out and went on a beautiful day! If you look really closely, you can see all these little windows, where over hundreds of years, the monks have built little caves and rooms to live in away from the main monestary. It seriously was so cool to see!

After we were done learning about St. George's and snapping some pics, we hiked the rest of the way over the mountain and back to the road. Along the way, there were these GIANT crosses surrounding the monestary on the top of the mountains.