Arkansas - Eureka Springs   June 7-20, 2023

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We began our trip westward out of Florida on June 1st, through Mississippi, Northern Louisiana and a couple of one- and 2-night stops. Continued up into Arkansas where we stayed at a campground in Eureka Springs, located in Northwestern Arkansas. We had reservations for 2 weeks at this beautiful campground on top of the hills with incredible views. The town of Eureka Springs was built-in the mid 1800s and all buildings were developed among various levels of limestone hills creating a very unique topography for this town. This town was definitely a mountain town that is surviving on tourism, it's such a beautiful area.

While in Eureka Springs we walked through many parts of the town and some interesting hiking trails in the woods and surrounding neighborhoods. The architecture of the homes and buildings in that area are very much European influence particularly Switzerland. The mountains are steep like in the alps. We also drove around many parks and biking trails along with a lovely lake outside of town. The views driving around in the mountain roads were awesome.

The Passion Play and final days of Jesus Christ.

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Our campground was just a 1/2 mile from a very special place dedicated to the last days of Christ.

The Passion play is performed in an outdoor amphitheater with amazing settings as one would have seen during Christ's time in Jerusalem. The play was very interesting and well done with characters in all forms of garb of that time and how Jesus spent time with the people and his apostles.

Nearby that area there was a gigantic statue of the Christ of Ozarks placed there by faithful people in honor of Jesus.

Also, part of the Passion play area has tours where you could see how Jerusalem looked at that time. This was a wonderful surprise that I was able to see the play and all the other places that were there during Christ's time in Jerusalem.