Park Plaza Jerusalem

... dinner.  We ate at a genuine Moroccan restaurant which was excellent.  Oct 28 is the first Susan G. Komen walk in Jerusalem.  The city wall tonight was illuminated in pink. Observations to date.  As mentioned our tour guide plays a ...

... big enough for 4 and cost us each 10 NIS) to view the great paroramas of the city.  We then walked through Independence Park, passed a craft market on the way to the Machaneh Yehuda produce market area. It was a nice 3 hour walking tour of the ...

... ;We hear some singing and musical instruments and walk in that direction, which happens to be in the direction of the Jerusalem Archeological Park and the Davidson Center, which is our next destination.  We walk out the security exit at the Western ...

... (I think all 4 of us could make great sprinters under right circumstances!)...                                                      JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY I have to digress now...I do not want to go ...

... ) and that had assigned seating. Moreover, situated where it is, it has a tremendous view of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Hinnom Valley from its plaza and downstairs restaurant where we had dinner on the patio (this one was dairy, so I had a salad ...

... with the Dead Sea Scrolls!  We didn't expect it to be such a full long day! But that's how things go here in Jerusalem.   You go to a place, get interested in what you are seeing and time just flies by! Harvey is playing his guitar. ...

... .  We are now in Tiberias at the Royal Plaza Hotel ( the same one that the group is coming to). Our last week in Jerusalem was busy with saying goodbye to many people that we have come to know  (especially the man at our favorite ...

... interesting to see the local Israeli's passing through the immigration by hand identification. The drive from airport to the Hotel Yamit Park Plaza is about half an hour. The hotel is located in a prime city-centre location at Hayarkon Street, facing ...

... the hire car, and set off to do some shopping! Tel Aviv is definitely the most Westernized city we had been to in Jerusalem, and definitely the city we felt most comfortable in. The shopping was not as good as I had anticipated, but definitely beat the ...

... . We have similarly timed holidays and time constraints. The chronologically first of these events occurred on the one day in Jerusalem I accidentally omitted from the blog. An excellent day, where Marie Louise and I visited the old city of David in ...

... hand to the gate.  The community that lived there was part of a flourishing town along a trade route stretching from Jerusalem in the West to Arabia and the Orient in the East.  King Herrods summer palace was here but it was most ...

... also an important city in the Arab Middle East. During the Crusades, it was the County of Jaffa, a stronghold of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. (as per Wikipedia) Jaffa (or Yafo) is one of the most ancient port cities in the world. Some claim that Jaffa ...

... , allowing us concentrated looks at the various regions within the Jewish State: the Galil, the Golan Heights, the Negev Desert, Jerusalem, the Mediterranean coast, the Judean Desert and Eilat on the Red Sea. BBYO is a youth led organization, which means ...

... around 1pm we discovered that the holy land also closes for siesta time - it's opening hours were 4-10pm. 'A chance to visit Jerusalem all year round' the entrance gate sign teased us, grr!    Michelle had to catch a flight that afternoon ...

... made it there, Monday afternoon, after two buses and some serious walking, it was closed for the holiday. Patterned after "ancient Jerusalem," we peered through the grates to see the Golgotha, with its three crosses, surrounded by a Roman soldier, a Mary ...

... , went for a run and then went with my host mom to a little Semana Santa procession for kids that simulated Jesus' march on Jerusalem. I saw my host mom’s grand kids march in the procession while holding palms and then we all went to mass in a ...

... ) besieged the castle in 1183. As the siege took place during the marriage of Humphrey IV (of Toron) and Isabella (of Jerusalem), Saladin agreed not to attack their bedchamber. This siege was relieved by King Baldwin IV, but the castle was ...

... coasters in the shape of a cross or something. This place was nothing short of ridiculous. The place is themed to look just like Jerusalem around the time of 0.00 AD/BC. There weren't any roller coasters, but there was a 60 ft. high Jesus that rose from ...

... ; She was cute, with big eyes and an open slit between her front teeth.  Daniel said, "She's studying in a seminary in Jerusalem."  She frowned.  She had a personality like her short, round body: happy and hard-to-budge.  She'd frowned ...