KyleGethsemaneKyle Woodruff explores an ancient olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane, with Israeli guide Anat Meiri 

So here’s a question; if you could visit Israel and go to all the places you’ve read about and dreamed of experiencing, using every sense but sight–meaning you wouldn’t see a thing–would you still want to go? Would it be worth it?

Kyle Woodruff has been blind since birth, but on a recent tour of the Holy Land with a choir, he “saw” the land of Israel and the places Jesus walked and taught, in very different ways than everyone else in the group–and came up with some amazing and surprising insights.

That’s this week on The Cricket and Seagull

KyleCamelFinalKyle Woodruff takes his first camel ride in Jericho on the West Bank. To the right is the monastery on the traditional site of the Mt. of Temptation.

KyleGalilee2Kyle Woodruff enjoying the breeze out on the Sea of Galilee, with choir director Dr. Brady Allred.

KyleNazarethCliff2Kyle Woodruff at the edge of Mount Precipice in Nazareth, with his tour roommate, Hal.

KyleMenorahKyle Woodruff explores the menorah near the Israeli Knesset.

ChoirStAndrewsChurchRehearsal at St. Andrew’s church in Jerusalem. Dr. Brady Allred directs the Festival Choir combined with the choir of Dr. Shimon Levtov.