Golden Tulip Privilege Ein Bokek

... light on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Despite much debate among academics, they are considered to be the earliest copies of the Bible. For me, the visit was well-timed given our current exhibition of 18 scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. I have worked on the exhibition over the last year, and it was exciting to be standing in the place of so much mystery and controversy. Despite the late hour (it was dusk and the light was fading) and the fact that the site was closed for ...

... Falasteen," which is Arabic for Palestine. It hit me pretty hard because my time in Egypt has made me especially aware of the plight of the Palestinians and the general mess that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I gazed onto the holy land for a while before starting up a conversation with the driver (who spoke no Arabic...so this is all a rough translation into English). I asked him if he had a family. 10 kids: 5 girls and 5 boys ...

... a while, though it kinda starts to sting. By the way, don't shave before going in the Dead Sea. When we started to dry off we noticed a guy setting up his hooka. We were curious and stayed to watch. They wanted us to try it so who are we to argue? Not bad. (I hate smoke) This was smoothe. Tasted a little like licorice. <br>The drive back was uneventful after our brief stop by the police. The driver had to get out and we had a moment of "what would we do if he was taken into ...

... viele Tomatenfeld**, ab** es w**den auch Ananas sowie and**e Früchte und Gemüse angebaut. Jedoch ist Wass** ein großes Problem in d** Region. Nicht nur das Tote Me** v**li**t auf Grund von mangelndem Wass**zufluß etwa 1 Met** jährlich, auch die Bau**n bekommen nur staatlich rationi**tes Wass** zum Bewäss**n. Auß**dem kommt nur genügend Wass** "unten" an, wenn nicht "oben" schon zuviele Bau**n etwas abgezweigt haben... Und welche Auswirkung die Lage im Iraq auf die ...

... Mama und 2 Töchter. Nach der 2. Runde Tee gebe ich vor ans Auto zu müssen. Ich hole meine Karte und frage (am Auto), wo wir genau sind und wie weit Karak ist. Noch etwa 1 Stunde Fahrtzeit - also muss ich langsam los, sag ich. Die Einladung bei ihnen zu schlafen, lehne ich dankend ab. Der Vater wollte nur bis nach Hause und nicht nach Karak, also fahre ich allein weiter und muss etwas Zeit gut machen, da es bereits ca. 16 Uhr war und ich gewarnt wurde, in Jordanien nach Einbruch der ...

... checkpoint, we got out of the van and walked across to a Palestinian guide. He then took us to another guide in Manger Square who would take us on the tour. It was a little unsettling, not having Micha by our side, but both guides were very nice, and everything ended up ok. We went in to the Church of the Nativity. It was a dark, dingy, not-well-kept place (remember, it's in the Palestinian area), and it was very ornately ...

... the Jewish area) to East Jerusalem (the Arab area) and he kept telling me " I can't believe you speak Arabic because as soon as I saw you I thought you were a Jew."  I said nope, American Arabic speaker.  Nice guy, definitely annoyed at Israel, and feels wronged by them and has nowhere to go or any future.  He worked as a bus driver between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and said even though he had only been in Tel Aviv for a few hours that he missed speaking Arabic ...

... Karak. This one was better preserved than Shobak Castle. It also had more tourists, but we managed to stay away from the big groups. The castle had a moat- not filled with water currently- and sits up on a high hill (one of the French rulers used to throw prisoners 450m off of the castle walls, with a box over their heads so they wouldn't lose consciousness while falling to their death). We explored several long covered galleries, a kitchen with large ...

On the way to the airport in Amman, we stopped at Mt. Nebo - the place from where Moses is believed to have first seen the promised land. You have a nice view from up there, no doubt - but only if there are no clouds, of course. So not to great today. Many tour buses stop here to have people look at some randomly picked spot which might or might not be of religious significance. There have been excavations of the old Byzantine church located here and huge pieces of mosaic have been ...

... up to the springs. Such goats are mentioned in that same passage in Samuel. It is a steep, though not a long, climb up the springs, but it was over 100 degrees F and quite humid due to our proximity to the Dead Sea. At the top we passed a series of pools, places where David and his men would have drunk and bathed 3000 years ago, on the way to the highest fall of all, now called David's waterfall. We found one beautiful pool with no swimmers present and for half an ...