Monday, June 11, 2012
My Israel trip in pics and video.
(evidently i skipped the sound editing part making this, so mute is your best friend)
Flew from San Diego to Newark. Then to Tel Aviv and a mini-bus ride to Jerusalem. Stayed west of "the seam" in the more arab side of the city. Nice hotel and within walking distance of all we wanted in Jerusalem. Or close to the train/mass transit for the things farther away.
Hit up Damascus Gate, old city, David's Tower, Garden Tomb, Garden of Gethsemane, Mt of Olives, Wailing Wall, Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques. Lion's Gate, Joffa Gate. Yad Vashem aka the Holocaust museum. The Dead Sea, mnt fortress of Masada, Qumran and a detour to Jericho and such in the PA controlled area.
Nice weather. Lots of walking. Only heard gunfire three times. Lots of tension in the air. Peace there is a futile dream. OK food. Decent prices. I've been a few other middle eastern places and it was fairly typical in the amount of people, business, dirt and trash around.
Sorry for an 18 minute video, but it's hard to distill 4 days into less than that. You're only getting 80% of the trip anyways, even with that. So sit back and take the time to enjoy. Ask questions. Challenge my assumptions. Just enjoy.
(Norway's equivalent will be here soon.)
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That trail at the Masada looks killer! My thighs are burning just seeing it from your video!
ReplyDeleteThe Great Salt Lake is like that, where you don't sink. Did it stink at the Dead Sea? SL stinks like crazy.
It was a good trail. The sun and heat are more of an issue than the actual walk. It's less than Iron Mnt in Poway.
ReplyDeleteGuess you can count watching the video as exercise then!
I have been to SL and this was similar but different. Smelled more like the Salton Sea.