Jaffa Gate (Bab al-Khalil) Jerusalem

Jerusalem is to most the most sacred city in the world and has so much to see. It has the history of the bible everywhere. The entire city is within city walls and this is one of the most famous city walls in the world. I think I have been to 4 of the top 10 city walls in the world. Some of the others are Pingyao in China, Xian in China and …

Today was all about getting us oriented. Started the morning with the workout at 6:15 "as promised", and I suppose it was good. My experience traveling so far says that if you can keep your body thinking it's in its groove while making sure your mind knows it isn't, things will go well. So as indicated by the attractions seen column, we saw a lot …

... that some day there can be enough tolerance that we can all live together in peace. On our way back to the Jaffa Gate, Madeleine, knowing my interest in photography, takes us to Elia Photo Service in the Christian Quarter. We meet Kevork Kahvedjian ...

... on sleep and exploring the area around the hotel. The next day we decided to go on a walking tour of Jerusalem. The tour departed from Jaffa Gate and there were two options – one being a free walking tour and another one costing us about $25 ...

... , our guide, Yael, is amazingly knowledgeable.  We walk along the city wall, toured the Tower of David next to the Jaffa Gate, saw the Wailing Wall (left a note saying thank you for all the opportunities I've been given) and enjoyed some traditional ...

... get out.  Really I think he has had it and wants to go home.  So we walk for about 10-15 minutes to the Jaffa Gate and the Old City.  It is one of those singular moments that you recognize at the time...of stepping through the gates of ...

... for the Western Wall Tunnel Tour, so we plan to spend the day with this time period as our theme.   We walk through the Jaffa Gate and down the narrow aisles of the marketplace, to the Western Wall.  We have now been this way many times, ...

... in Polish (nor did we understand Polish - which made it twice as boring) and were contemplating going back and through the Jaffa gate.  Luckily and Israeli Rastafarian walked by and we asked where the church is, he said it was close by, ...

... I also got Travis his daily dose of bread bagels there.  They were less than half the price of the bagels at the Jaffa Gate.  Inside the gate, past the slightly more expensive fruit and vegetable shops, at the intersection where three roads ...

... . 16, or so, of us crammed into a van that picked us up in front of the hotel and took us inside the Jaffa gate.   I had purchased all the souvenirs I needed for friends and family.  Anything I found on this free day of ...

... Fred Friday: Started with an abortive attempt to drive to the City of David to do Hezikiah’s tunnel. I missed the turn off to Jaffa Gate and ended up on the road to Har Hatsofim (Mt Scopus), through a tunnel with no way to turn off or back track. ...

... no one present was singing) and it was as if a huge choir were there rejocing. After Saint Annes we got ice cream near Jaffa Gate to consol ourselves after a failed walk to the Cnimateque (turns out we don't speak Hebrew). MIne (Hana's) was a water ...