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Goodbye Egypt! Hello Jordan!
Since our last blog we left all but 6 of our group to go to Mount Sinai in Egypt. We stayed in a hostel in the middle of the desert. It was the first time we have actually been cold on our trip. Mount Sinai is 2,629 m high and where many religions and nationalities believe Moses received the 10 commandments from God. Due to this it attracts …
Roman Ruins and Dead Sea
The Granda Hotel looked a bit run down when we got here but was more than adequate (thank goodness) and at least all the facilities worked! We went out for dinner with our group and found somewhere to have a beer (that was hard work as many flash as restaurants didnt sell alcohol!!).
its funny driving out of the city as if you build a house, …
Visum faal
De busrit naar Amman duurde ongeveer 2,5 uur en zat tjokvol toen we Petra verlieten. Studenten, paar zakenlui, maar voornamelijk arabieren die van A naar B moesten. Voor ons was het net alsof de meesten ergens in de middle of nowhere afgezet werden. Wij werder op een van de busstations van Amman afgezet, en na wat rondvragen hadden we de bus naar 'downtown' te pakken.
We waren 'getipt' om naar het Mansour Hotel te gaan. We kregen er een redelijk ontvangst ...
Burial And Funeral
... two hundred men there mostly friends of the family and relatives. After that we went to my uncle's house where we had Iftar and welcomed all the people we knew. Men went to my uncle's house and women to my grandmother's. We greeted visitors well into the night, some until 1 am. Now we have to do funeral again two more nights. All this seems simple when I type it out but the burial and funeral day seemed like one of my longest. In general the burial was very difficult I am not ...
Last and final installment--conclusions
... harassed and suppressed.
Will there ever be peace? I don’t think so. Each side is making claims to the same lands based on their religion. We are not talking logic here folks, we are talking about claims based on each side’s faith in their religion’s dogma. How can that ever change?.
The Jews claim that God gave Abraham the land some 3,000 years ago. However, since that time it has been occupied by everyone ...
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