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Barriers
... to get between cities. You get out of your bus, line up in this cage that looks a little like a prison, go through a metal detector and throw your bags into the x-ray, get your passport checked, then find another bus. It's all under pretty heavy surveillance, and it took quite some time. I can't imagine doing this all the time. As foreigners, we were just waved through at the passport control, but the Palestinians clearly had more hassle.
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Pickpockets, Partitions, and Prayers
... until I left Jerusalem) I left the Ecce Homo Church (Ecce Homo is Latin for “Behold the Man” and is revered at the place where Pontius Pilate presented Jesus to the people of Jerusalem, and crowned Him with thorns.) and walked the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion. I was told to expect crowds, but luckily, there weren’t many visitors when I arrived.
Being perhaps the ...
OT Guided Tour and Self-Guided Meandering
So the blank in the Title sections says "C'mon, you can think of a clever title" before you fill it in, and that pressure is just way more than I can meet. Not cool.
Woke up about 6:20 today-couldn't bring myself to go for a morning workout when we had to be rucking by 7:00. We began the day by going into the Western Wall. For those who don't know and wouldn't wikipedia it, the Western Wall "aka wailing wall is a portion of the retaining wall for ...
Jerusalem, continued
... top tower to look at the view and wait for the tour to start. We went on the tour with an American guide named Rivka who has lived in Israel for 30 years. She has even been involved in some of the archaeological excavations around the Temple Mount! :) The tour was really interesting because it went through the different empires that have ruled Jerusalem (including Greek, Roman, Ottoman and British Mandate) and used the citadel. Rivka recommended we go to the Damascus ...
Jerusalem - West Bank - Dead Sea
... not the joking kind. An officer with blond hair and blue eyes carrying a gun as big as his leg stepped out into the street with his hand out as we approached the gate. He asked us where we were going, looked in the car at both of us, and then told us to enjoy our vacation. Had we been the towel wearing type I don't think he would have been so brief and friendly.
Other than this checkpoint there was no sign of human life, other than the paved road ...
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