MercerBalls: More T shirt humour
MercerBalls: Roman camp at foot of Herodion
MercerBalls: Judean desert and the Dead Sea on the skyline
MercerBalls: Jerusalem from Herodion
MercerBalls: Herodion
MercerBalls: The group and our guide Saleem
MercerBalls: Herod the Great's fort - Herodion
MercerBalls: Reception Hall and later a synagogue
MercerBalls: Inside the cisterns at Herodion
MercerBalls: Giant water cistern
MercerBalls: Amphitheatre at Herodion
MercerBalls: Restoring Herod's rooms
MercerBalls: A shepherd and his sheep
MercerBalls: Herodion - built inside the hillside for defence
MercerBalls: Angel over the doorway at the Chapel of the Angels at Shepherd' Fields
MercerBalls: Dome of Chapel of the Angels
MercerBalls: An angel appears to the shepherds. Painting in the Chapel of the Angels
MercerBalls: Singing in the Chapel of the Angels
MercerBalls: Trees and sky at Shepherd's Fields
MercerBalls: Statue at Shepherds' Fields
MercerBalls: Nativity crib at Shepherd's Fields
MercerBalls: The dividing wall near Bethlehem
MercerBalls: The West Bank Barrier
MercerBalls: Graffiti on the West Bank Barrier
MercerBalls: The West Bank Barrier in Bethlehem
MercerBalls: West Bank Barrier in Bethlehem
MercerBalls: Looking across modern Bethlehem
MercerBalls: Jerusalem cross on the top of the Church of the Nativity
MercerBalls: Saleem signing our group into the Church of the Nativity
MercerBalls: The group waiting in the Church of the Nativity