Family trip to Holyland Day 12 - back to Jakarta (8 June 2023)

Our flight was 6.30pm in the evening Jordan time and arrived at Dubai around 10pm. We had 5 hours in transit and the kids were so sleepy and they slept at the airport bench while waiting for the next flight bound to Jakarta.

Finally we departed around 3.30am in the morning and arrived at Jakarta around 4pm as there's time difference between Dubai and Jakarta.

Thanks God for the smooth sailing flight and all the providence during our pilgrimage trip.

It's just a beginning of our faith journey but by God's providence and grace we are able to walk together with God.

Family trip to Holyland Day 11 - Jordan, Petra ( 7 June 2023 )

This is our last day in Jordan and ends of our pilgrimage trip. We went to visit Petra, the Rose city, one of the seven wonder of ancient worlds.

It's amazing to see how they carved the giant rocks as luxurious tombs for the kings or wealthy men and buried all the treasures and precious stones there.

We walked for around 2 hours to reach the treasury place and walked back for another 1.5 hours to reach to our bus station.

Family trip to Holyland Day 10 - Israel to Jordan bus ride ( 6 June 2023 )

In the morning before our bus ride trip to Jordan, we visited Church of Annunciations and Church of St Joseph and Old Nazareth town.

As it's early in the morning, there is only our group arriving at the church.

Church of Annunciation is the biggest basilica at Middle East area

We also visited Church of St Joseph which was located one stone away. The church was much more simple than Church of Annunciation. And we went in to the basement which was believed where Jesus and his family stayed and worked in the past 30 years of his life.

Then we went to the Israel/Jordan border and it took around 1 hour to clear the immigration. We had lunch at local food restaurant then we visited Mount Nero where Moses final resting place as he only could see the promised land but unable to enter physically.

After that we stopped by at Mosaic workshop which was Jordan's handmade art and craft of mosaic.