Old City of Jerusalem

Our day began with a view from the Mount of Olives. What an incredible site. To know what happened there and what is yet to happen is amazing. It was a wonderful way to start the day.

The rest of the sites we visited were so packed with tourists (mainly Russian) that it was nearly impossible to see the sites. It was a bit discouraging at …

We did so many things that it would be to hard to tell all. You cannot describe the walled city, of course it is old,tunnels, curches, more steptsthan you can count, with lots of history and people.
The Israel Museum and the talk we had with a survivor of the Holocaust and a scale model of the walled city- Was great. We had one free day and …

I groggily blink my eyes open to find daylight and Mike already awake next to me. We are approaching Jerusalem and the tour guide starts to tell us about the sites outside. All is well except that we can't understand a single word he is saying. Now that it is daylight and we have clearer heads, we realize that we are among a group of 11 English …

Jerusalem & Holocaust Museum

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We really like this hotel. The rather quirky, up-market interior design carries through from the room to the dining room as well as to its crockery, etc. Breakfast again was a most comprehensive buffet. The one thing we noticed that isn't as good as Egypt though is the …

Today is Palm Sunday in Jerusalem for all Christain Orthodox. It is also the second day of the Jewish Passover. Palm Sunday has always been a special day for all in the city. It is special for everyone. Christians for its religious significance; Moslems because for some reason parents and grandparents take their children to see the procession, and …

Day 16 May 22, 2012 Jerusalem

Since we are staying in a big fancy hotel we have a big fancy breakfast. They actually have an omelet station. Also a lot of good salads and breads. I am dying for a plate of sausages or a ham steak but that is not likely—at least not pork sausage. We are off to an early start this morning—we have …

Arrived here yesterday after spending the day travelling from Sharm el Sheik. The first section was a 3 hour drive through the Sinai desert to Taba. This was interesting, though rather monotonous, as the scenery did not vary much from stony mountains and bare desert sands. The last section of the road ran along the side of the Gulf of Aqaba where …

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 …

... , the restricted access for Jews, and the nineteen years without access. We return to our room and watch our last sunset over the Old City of Jerusalem. Before we know it, we are ready to take a taxi over to the theatre, Binyanei Hauma, for the Eyal ...

... to natural disasters etc. The second building, The Dome of the Rock has a huge gold domed roof which dominates the skyline of the Old City of Jerusalem.  Underneath the dome is a large rock which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews.  The rock ...

... someone else; the kibbutz just needed marriage papers. He dropped me off near the godly white, stone walls encircling the Old City of Jerusalem.  According to Jewish legend, when God created the world, seven baskets of beauty fell on it, and six ...

... years.  We drove around Mt. Scopus and Mt. of Olives to the Dung Gate (one of the six gates around the walled old city of Jerusalem) and parked the car in metered parking for 2 hours.  We walked to the gate, which is the closest to the western ...

... Sea, drinking an iced mocha. Pretty much the exact opposite of mad Delhi, which is what I needed. I arrived in the Old City of Jerusalem the next day and booked into Tabasco Hostel, which is only 100m behind the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. ...

... uneasy tenants on a small piece of land in the Middle East that each considers holy. As we discovered, the tensions among these religions, and even different groups within one religion, are played out in small ways each day in the Old City of ...

We started off with devotions at 7 AM and never stopped moving after that.  We got on the bus and went into the Old City of Jerusalem, going in through the Zion Gate to the Jewish Quarter.  As we walked along, we saw many school children going ...

... longer than 2 hours. After that I went I Old Town again and to mountain of Olives from where I had a great view on Old City of Jerusalem. Sixth day: On the airport I was interrogated cause of a stamp of UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. "What did you do ...

... to go to synagogue and pray but i slept in just a little bit instead, and then my dad and I went to the Old City of Jerusalem and entered through the Jaffa Gate (Armenian Quarter entrance), walked through a shortcut to the jewish quarter and took many ...

... challenging but definitely not boring!... we would've enjoyed "Natasha"'s company even more, but we had to be in the Old City of Jerusalem at a certain time, and we were already running late...the reason we could not be late was because Michal booked ...