Addar Hotel Jerusalem

... Carmel for the Tuesday crafts market on Nachalat Binyamin, Nice stuff in the market. And all in a surprisingly sedate setting. Different from the Machane Yehuda intensity and grittiness that I expected. <br><br>We spent a couple of hours looking and chatting with the artists. A very pleasant bunch. A far cry from the creeps in the Jerusalem souk.<br><br><br>Safari was the perfect follow up to our 2 to 3 hours walk about in the crafts market. We started off ...

... een bus gemist, en was door de volgende volle bus laten staan.. Met zn drieen gingen we in Jerusalem shoarma eten, en daarna moest Thierry naar zn hostelvrienden, en wij hadden een Couch Surfing date met Oren en zn vrienden. <br><br>Maar eerst moesten we nog even eten.. We hadden echt geen honger, dus wilden gewoon een slaatje eten.. Maar in ons fancy restaurant kreeg je ook nog een mega-voorgerecht met allerlei brood en ...

Jordan to Israel via land boarder crossing:<br><br>So we started our journey early because we knew this could take a while. There were 4 of us together and so we took a taxi from Amman to the border. I think we paid 5 JD each for the ride. Once we got to the border we had to go in a little office and line up to get our exit fee of 5 JD- it was very crowded and we had to push our way through to get in faster- just doing what the locals do! Then we got on a ...

... the other side of the ramparts was open until 7. So we went outside the jaffa gate and around the corner of the outside wall and found the entrance. We ascended a very long amazing metal staircase to the top of the ramparts. We were three of about 30 there. So we ended up having an amazing dusk experience as we walked from the jaffa gate to almost the Kotel on the ramparts. We could peer into the cloistered Armenian quarter, and the ...

... advertise (very lightly) their pay tours. The tour was very very informative and lasted about 3 hours. Our tour guide was Yael, and she has her masters in Middle Eastern history so she knew her stuff, but also was very....bubbly...so she made it fun too. The tours start from Jaffa Gate at 11:00am and 2:30pm pretty much every day. They are run by New Europe Tours and I highly suggest trying to find them. Oh, and apparently they do this in cities ...

... Jed**manns gewoehnlichstes Reiseziel, trotzdem kann ich wirklich jedem ans H**z legen, Hebron zumindest einmal einen kurzen Besuch abzustatten. Die Atmospha**e ist mehr als drueckend, fast schon angsteinfloessend, die Sich**heitskontrollen und unzaehligen Soldaten auf ihren Wachtu**men direkt ueb** dem Markt und dem Rest d** Altstadt geben einem genau das Gefuehl, das man einmal haben sollte, wenn man v**stehen will, wie es sich unt** ein** Besatzung lebt.<br><br>So froh ...

... seats closer to the front). So no audience murmur when Ayelet showed up. (She did a nice job in the movie, though.)<br><br>After the movie, it was no longer Shavuot, but it was now Shabbat. We were lucky to find a cab just then, and we took it to the pedestrian mall in the heart of the city in the hope of finding some open restaurants. It was also deserted and quiet. We did find a bar/performance space on a quiet side street that we had read about, which was kind of ...

... Patriarchate houses the Cathedral of Sts. James, the monastery, a seminary, a library, a secondary school, a publishing house and contains an entire Armenian community within its compound. They enjoy semi-diplomatic status. If I understood correctly, about 7,000 people live in this beautiful set-apart community. They're mostly refugees and their descendants...and all of Armenian origin. The monks ...

... for interesting stories nonetheless. It was a very insightful tour, and I can now say that between this trip and Academy a few years ago, I've visited almost all Jerusalem has to offer.<br><br><br>Israel Museum - incl. Dead Sea Scrolls<br><br>We'd visited this museum on Academy, along with practically every other museum in the whole country, but now I have far more appreciation for all things historical and significant. In the gardens there's a large replica of how Jerusalem ...

... 2000, i met someone and he made me an honorary Newfi. :) That way now when I travel I can say that I'm from Canadian. Remember, it's always better to be Canadian in sticky situations. :). Also people think that since you're from American that you've got money. Can we say NON FOR PROFIT? :) I am broke! Somehow I found my way to Via Dolorosa. This is a number of different stations (14 all together) that Catholics believe are the last 14 important steps that Jesus ...