Jesus land! I mean.."Tierra Santa"

Hasn't everyone always fantasized about combining Sunday school with Disneyland? I know I have! Well, such a thing actually exists! Really! "Tierra Santa" is a religious theme park here in Buenos Aires. It is a replica of 1st century CE Jerusalem complete with a mini-Mosque and Synagogue, a Wailing wall, and a Via Dolorosa with all the stations of the cross! There is also a replica Golgotha, a light, lazer and sound show about Creation (which the brochure is sure to point out neither argues for or against evolution), and the Ark of the covenant (if only Indie thought to look in Argentina!) and more, replete with camel and donkey statues and manequin slaves being whipped by their Roman oppressors as well as "authentic" Middle Eastern food (inluding pasta, pizza and hot dogs).

Kitsch, kitsch and more kitsch! It was awesome! Really, in all honesty, it was pretty neat and I am glad we went even if the robotic Jesus at the Last Supper table didn't inspire me to be be reborn as a Christian.

Looking out over "ancient Jerusalem."


Me and Jesus the big friendly giant.

Don't you hate when people read the Torah over your shoulder? Mike with his Kipa inside the synagogue.

Me with my buddy Martin Luther. Who knew he lived in first century Jerusalem?

Mike running into Ghandi. Yes, Ghandi. Uh huh.

The Wailing Wall. The sign says that all the notes that are stuffed into the cracks will be desposited into the cracks at the real Wailing Wall.

A mixture of the sacred and profane...well maybe the belly dancers were a little more profane than sacred.

Adam--I mean a gorilla. The most beloved figure in the Creation light, laser and sound show.