Some of the thousands of cranes we watched fill the sky,flying over us at Agmon HaChula, the once-drained, now-restored bird sanctuary lake visited by flocks migrating seasonally from Asia to Africa.

Medhead tour members dress as their radio hero for their Purim costumes

Tour group celebrates Purim in costume, at dinner in the swanky new Mamilla Hotel, Jerusalem.

Danny Medved serenades passers-by on a beach on the Dead Sea.

Diane and friends at The Treasury, one of massive stone-carved structures 2,000 years old, at Petra, Jordan.