We went to what is known at the "Yardenit" baptismal site. I know it sounds impossible, but this was the only slight disappointment of the trip so far. The site is amazingly commercial. Several gift shops have been built, there's a full-service restaurant, any and everything is for sale and the coffee/snack shop serves Heineken in case you need a brew while you watch your loved one get baptized.
All that said, it is still the very same river in which John baptized Jesus, and in which Naaman the leper of the Old Testament was made clean. Probably neither of those things happened at this part of the Jordan, but it's the place that we had access to the river from the southern end of the Sea of Galilee. Hey, I got a great picture for my office.
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