The City of David Visitors Center Jerusalem

Today was our first day without a tour guide. We started the day taking the new light rail from the apartment to the Damascus Gate, where we entered the north end of the Old City and traveled down and exited the Dung Gate for the City of David.

This tour was a repeat for me from two years ago, but still one of the trip highlights. The City …

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 …

The next stop is Jerusalem and I had a great travel friend in Jackie. She had found a free hostel in the Old City; The Heritage House was a place for any Jew to stay for free and explore Jerusalem. It was a great location in the heart of the Jewish Quarter where you could walk around from. There is a unique feeling in this place because there are …

As a finale to our Israel visit, we have planned to spend our last day with Madeleine Lavine, for what promises to be an opportunity to not only to see the City of David with her expert guidance and commentary but also to experience some off-the-beaten path sites in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem is unique among world cities in that it is a city with …

Friday morning after breakfast the bus took us into Jerusalem, we picked up the light rail to the Damascus Gate, and we meandered our way to our hotel in the Arab Quarter. This weekend we made the City of David which included Hezikah's Tunnel and returned up the hill going through the ancient Heriodian sewers which lead us into a massive dig pit …

Today started with a free tour of the old city, which was really nice to hear a little bit more about some of the sites we have already seen. After this tour we headed over to the City of David and wandered through Hezekiah's tunnels. This was really fun as it is an old water tunnel that is cut through the rock so Jerusalem's water supply could not …

We had a tough choice to make for Sunday morning. We had to choose between going to the Yad Vasham Holocaust Museum or seeing the City of David. We thought about splitting up, but in the end decided to go with the City of David. We talked to a couple afterward who went to the museum and they said it was very sobering.

After taking the …

... would have headed down to wash in the Pool of Siloam, and then through the Herodian sewer system and back to the City of David visitors centre to buy more things for that shipping container. WOW! Spine tingling experience walking the Bible!! Next stop ...