New Palm Hostel Jerusalem
Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
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Follow The Tour Guide
We slept in a little this morning to rest our legs and then headed over to the Jaffa gate for a highly rated 4 hour tour that I read about on tripadvisor. The tour went mostly to sites we were unable to locate the entrance to yesterday, such as the Temple Mount and the Church of the Sepulchre. A lot of it was just putting faces on the reading I had …
The Holiest City of Holy Cities.
Jerusalem: The Old City
Via Dolorosa is the street in the Old City of Jerusalem where Jesus carried his cross down to his crucifixion. Via Dolorosa means Way of Suffering or Way of Grief in Latin. There are different Stations of the Cross that signify Jesus’ sufferings and death. It is a place of spiritual pilgrimage where people …
Jerusalem: New Palm Hostel
At first when we got to New Palm Hostel, we were not too sure about it, it was dark and seemed a little dingy. But we ended up loving it because it has character (to get to it you have to go through a fruit market!!!), its cheap (50 NIS a night in the dorms) and the Manager Alex is a genuinely nice person, who helped us out whenever we needed. The …
Heathens in the Holy Land
Unsurprisingly, security at the Israeli border is pretty thorough before we are allowed into the country. At the West Bank checkpoint we (a bus full of white tourists) drive straight through, past the immense queues of cars containing people 'of Arab descent'... hello racial profiling.
Jerusalem is a strange city. The population is a mix …
Welcome to the Holy Land!
Our last ditch effort to secure a visa at the Syrian embassy in Amman proved to be yet another massive failure – they just don`t seem to like Canadians for some reason – so we officially gave up our Syrian dream and promptly made our way to the Jordan/Israel border. To our surprise, it was very easy for us to get into Israel. From what …



