Friday, August 2, 2013

Two days in two units of measuring words.

Well, we got a lot done in the last two days. Here's our path from yesterday. We walked all around the old city, and also went to the wailing Wall! (Not much wailing...)
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We parked in a very awesome parking lot, run by a crazy man. I don't mean crazy crazy, but mad skills crazy. I couldn't get a good picture but here's a really dark shot.



This dude had the entire lot fill of cars. He had to keep all of the keys straight. I didn't see an organizer. He also quadrupole parks the cars. It took about five minutes to get out car at the end of the day, and the dude knew dad by sight. 

So anyways, we parked and stayed walking through a market, which was pretty crazy. Because of Ramadan, people are celebrating like crazy, so the market place was full. We then just kept walking through the city and saw some pretty cool items for sale. We stopped to look in at:


Talk about advertisement! From then on we continued to the city wall, which we walked along fora little bit, but by then it was getting pretty dark, so we headed to the walking wall. There were thousand of ultra Orthodox Jews there, paying and bobbing up and down. I think their bobbing is part of a really funny looking ritual. Not to be disrespectful or anything of course. :-D We proceeded to go back to the car, because by that time the sun had fallen, but first, a picture from the Jerusalem wall.

We headed back through a more desolate part of the market, where we stopped for some shawarma. 

Oh yes, I almost forgot. We went to the church of the holy sepulcher, where they supposedly have Jesus' tomb. Here's a picture of it.

How did it get so big and decorated? The whole church which hold some other "holy relics" is a touristy spot for making money off of all the Catholics that go through. There is no evidence that that was where Jesus was laid. Back to going back. We got in the car and headed to the mount of olives. It was a crazy experience getting in and our of the city, because because of Ramadan, ask of the Muslims are parked on the street and curb so they can sleep next to their second most holy sight. We had lots of trouble getting up a road which was supposed to be two way, but there were so many cars parked it was barely one way. The view from the mount was amazing, though. 

And then we went home. 

Today, wet went to the Canaanite caves. For some reason I can't explain, I feel I left my tablet in the cat and got no pictures. Yup. :-\ 


The first two pictures didn't upload right. Here they are.

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