in the mazy (but clean) side streets of 'Akka. ('Akka Old City Map)

don't you wish your garage/carport/whatever was this cool?

another view of the caravanserai. ('Akka Old City Map)

I'm not too sure what they did here, but it sure looks nice. ('Akka Old City Map)

underneath one of the arches. ('Akka Old City Map)

crabs in a bucket outside the white market, close to the Mosque of Al-Jazzar. ('Akka Old City Map)

not sure why it's called that. the Al-Jazzar Mosque is in back. ('Akka Old City Map)

where we stopped to get falafel, behind the white market.

a tunnel leading into the covered marketplace.

just outside the marketplace, in the centre of the Old City. ('Akka Old City Map)

uhhhhhhh, yum? a butcher's shop in the Old City's marketplace.

a spice shop in the Old City's marketplace.

a spice shop in the Old City's marketplace.

this guy popped up out of nowhere carrying all these animals and started showing them off.

lol.

he brought that snake's head just a couple of inches away from me when he walked past me with it.

this vendor of pomegranate juice was quite vocal and also affable. he touted his miracle drink to everybody, shouting 'antioxidants!'

the air in 'Akká used to be so foul that it was said a bird flying overhead would drop dead. But then Bahá'u'lláh came, and... well, you'll have to read the story yourself.

behind the mosque of Al-Jazzar. ('Akka Old City Map)

I'm not really sure what constitutes the mosque. ('Akka Old City Map)

counting the waves.

counting the waves.

counting the waves.

counting the waves.

looking across the bay.

after a day in 'Akka, our sherut dropped us off in Bahji to visit the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh and the gardens. (Haifa/'Akka Regional Map)

in the gardens at Bahji. (Haifa/'Akka Regional Map)

in the gardens at Bahji. (Haifa/'Akka Regional Map)

samir avec amis (et sa mère).

a stray cat appeared all of a sudden in the gardens on the path leading to the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh. he quickly picked up the nickname "the Kitty-Aqdás" (the Most Holy Kitty).