Mount Zion Hotel

... we meet everyone and no problems getting the car.  Drove to Jerusalem, found the hotel and they have parking.  The Mount Zion Hotel upgraded our 2 rooms to junior suites.  Lenie finished work at 5.  The girls and I did our own little ...

... and then walk over to another neighborhood quite close to our hotel, the German Colony.  Here is another advantage of the Mount Zion Hotel; it is in convenient walking distance of so many places a tourist wants to see.  We are meeting Debi, our ...

... Muslim call to prayer is blasting from East Jerusalem.  There is a Bar Mitzvah on the outside patio of our Mount Zion Hotel.  Contrasts! Today, we walked through the Western Wall tunnel and many different time periods - in some small way we ...

... reading our postings and looking at the photos!  We meet her three clients for the day who are also staying at the Mount Zion Hotel; they are taking a short break and are off to the Israel Museum which is open late tonight. We have dinner at the ...

... The taxi driver at the Jerusalem bus station finds someone who can speak English.  I find our papers with the address of the Mount Zion Hotel and we're set!  Harvey and the driver speak a little Hebrew together, like, where are you from? ...

... pastries or cake that we take up to the room for a late evening snack.  We have grown more comfortable at the Mount Zion Hotel. Over breakfast, the big question for the day is "What to do on our last day in Jerusalem and Israel?"   We ...

... on the Israel portion. We are met by a tour company representative who drove us to our home for the next four days, the Mount Zion Hotel in Jerusalem. After checking in to the hotel, we joined Gene and Adriene on a dual purpose trip, to seek lunch and ...

... which was a spectacular sight. Our second day in the park delivered blue skies and we took the opportunity to drive up the Zion-Mount Carmel highway (through the very long tunnel in the canyon wall) and walk the Canyon Overlook trail for a magnificent ...

... . Mmmmmmm! Americans totally beat the British when it comes to buffet dining. Fresher food and without the package holiday or grim hotel breakfast connotations.    We then set off to drive as far as we could manage towards national park no.2 - ...

... de strates successives. Nous devions nous arrêter à l'ouest du Zion parc national et nous voilà à l'est, à un endroit qui s'appelle Mount Carmel. Il y a une pompe à essence, ce best western et pas grand chose autour. Mais c'est le point de départ ...

... the afternoon with Veronica's friends from Camp Ramah who are living and/or visiting the Baka area. We swim in the pool at the Mount Zion Hotel and head back to our hotel to get ready for yom tov and to greet Jessica. With the changing of the clocks ...

... sun. We decided that one of these hikes was enough for the day and headed out. We drove out the east entrance over the Zion-Mount-Carmel highway. This highway winds up the canyon through narrow tunnels and gives spectacular views. A bit of a detour to get ...

... visiting the most on this trip and it definitely didn't disappoint me. We reached it from the East enterance and drove the Mount Carmel Highway to the south enterance. Along the way the landscape and rock formations change drastically. One of the coolest ...

... likely using the excavated rock for the walls.  This became the building platform for the temple and other structures on the temple mount.  Part of the western retaining wall built by Herod is known as the Wailing Wall. Bro Mike  gave us ...

... Ann Church where Jesus was to have healed a man in the garden area. We then went out Lion's Gate and over to the Mount of Olives. This is the site where Jesus was betrayed. There is the beautiful Church of Gethsemane with the rock where Jesus ...

... , taking of pictures and cell phones are forbidden on this day inside the area of the wall.   We ended our tour at Mount Zion and visited the burial place of King David.  After all this walking we returned to our bus and headed back to the ...

... years, toasting the occasion several times.  We enjoy the delicious food and excellent service. We have a nice relaxing stroll back to the Mt Zion Hotel. All in all, a beautiful anniversary day in Jerusalem! Click here for today's photos! ...

... III in honor of his mother.) The  Russian Church of the Ascension is where the head of John the Baptist was found. Went to Mount Zion, (Oskar Schindler's grave is not too far from where we were but we didn't go to it. He had asked to be buried in ...