tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83715573612694579132024-02-19T19:13:09.655-07:00The Overseas Adventures of Annie and Steven Berger - 2014This blog is a labor of love for our family and friends back home and around the world. Through Annie's posts you will see what we see as this year we visit Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Israel and Jordan. Each year we create a new travel diary so please click below to view other trips.Steven Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640530947960068248noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-46405188208725528462014-11-10T10:13:00.000-07:002016-09-18T08:11:15.392-06:0011/5 & 6: Copenhagen: Our Final Adventure!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The last post ended in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> with our having returned from visiting the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> town of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ramallah</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> on November 4<sup>th</sup> which truly marked the end
of our long grand adventure we started back on August 3<sup>rd </sup>. The next
day began our long trek home; we were up a little after </span><st1:time hour="2" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2 am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to get a shuttle to the Tel Aviv Airport, Israel’s
only international airport, where our flight for </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> left at 7. We’d been advised to be at the airport at
least 3 hours in advance in order to go through Israeli security. Luckily it
went far faster than our crossing the previous day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It almost felt like going
‘home’ again when we returned to </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Istanbul</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> as we’d spent so much time there not so long ago!
After a quick layover, we were on our way to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> where we had a full 24 hours to visit the lovely
capital of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Denmark</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Our hotel, <b>City Nebo</b>, was all of 75m from the
back door of the city train station which was just 3 stops from the airport –
how incredibly convenient since we had so little time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hadn’t known that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Denmark</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> had been given the designation of the World’s Happiest
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After checking into our
lovely mini suite, we dumped our bags and headed out in the dreary and drizzly
weather to discover the city having only a map and no other tourist information
unlike every other place we’ve been to this trip. Right around the corner from
the station was the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tivoli</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Gardens</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> that is a huge amusement park. We felt really as if
we had entered a time warp when we saw, for the first time, signs advertising
upcoming Christmas festivities there as we’d obviously seen no signs of
Christmas in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our first inkling of how
popular bikes are in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was seeing this bike park (my term) at the station.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Scenes of downtown </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen:</span></st1:place></st1:city></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We loved wandering down
pedestrian only streets of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
and getting a sense of how truly spectacular the city must be in when the sun
shines. Even with dreary skies and an early setting sun, we
loved the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of many people
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I remember thinking how
glorious it was seeing all the vibrant colors in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> after being in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for a couple of weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another beautiful church, at least from the outside, this one is </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">St.</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Alban’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As strange as it sounds, this
was the first park we had seen since leaving </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> except for one on </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
</span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. How lovely seeing all that green grass – I didn’t
realize how easy it is to take it for granted until you no longer are able to
see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How absolutely bucolic.
Again, just wonderful seeing for the first time this year signs of autumn and
the changing colors. I almost felt like we'd been transported back to my native Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At last, the Mermaid – it’s pretty
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We’d hoped to be able see the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The first of the season’s Christmas
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I felt like a small child
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No way to ever forget that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Denmark</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">land</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Legos</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> when visiting </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Copenhagen</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">!</span></div>
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morning, we munched (munched on is far politer than saying scarfing!) on mouth
watering croissants from a local bakery, before heading out to see some more of
the city before we had to fly out at 1 on the next leg of our trip home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another beautiful church, the Cathedral </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Church</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our Lady</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – very stark compared to others we had seen in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Poland</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and elsewhere at the beginning of the trip but still
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Certainly no excuse to litter
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The aptly named </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Round</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tower</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. It didn’t open til 10 and even though we were there just a few
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A bench much like we’re all accustomed
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">Seeing these British <b>Mason
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Mum, who grew up in </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 12.7272720336914px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">, always used them and talked about their being the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">En route to </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Reykjavik</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iceland</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> where we got a connecting nonstop flight to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Denver</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Thought you might be interested in reading these 'Most Amazing Things about Iceland.' On last year's trip around the world which we began in Iceland, we spent about 5 wonderful days discovering the southern part of the island nation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We left </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iceland</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> at </span><st1:time hour="17" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">5pm</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
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airport, 7 plus hours later, at </span><st1:time hour="17" minute="55"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">5:55</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">!
How great being back on home turf again after being out of the country for a
full 97 days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I hope to write one more post
to summarize our great adventure but til then thanks to all of you for taking
the time to slog through our posts and be our armchair traveling companions. I’ve
loved writing the blog knowing thee were so many of you who enjoyed waking up
each day wondering where we’d been, whom we’d been lucky enough to meet and
what we’d seen since my last entry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With thanks and love to each
of you, Annie and Steven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-31849760498658186212014-11-08T10:40:00.002-07:002016-09-18T08:11:45.429-06:0011/4: A Different Perspective about Israel <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Since we had an extra day on
our hands with no ‘plans’ for it, Steven and I decided on the spur of the
moment to head out mid morning to the West Bank city of <b>Ramallah</b>, 16 km
north of Jerusalem and only 64 km from the Mediterranean. The city’s name is a
combination of two Arabic words which mean the ‘Height of God.’ Ramallah hosts
most of the institutions of the Palestine Authority which were created in the
aftermath of the Oslo Accords. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Abraham Hostel offered a
day tour of Ramallah and two other West Bank towns for a very hefty 360 shekels each,
about $95, but we had left it too late to book that trip and also preferred to
do what we wanted as we wanted on our last day in Jerusalem. From the
Palestinian Bus Station, we got Bus #19 which left almost immediately for
downtown Ramallah and which cost only 8 shekels each one way. The city is only about 30 minutes away by bus from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <b>on the way there.</b> (More on the return trip
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Can you read the red sign? It says ' This road leads to Area A. Under Palestinian Authority, the entrance for Israeli citizens is forbidden, dangerous to your lives and is against the Israeli law.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As we rode the bus into town,
we saw a huge number of painted (graffittied?) walls in Ramallah unlike any
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The <b>Red Crescent Society</b> is
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our hostel had suggested we
stop in at the <b>Area D Hostel</b> just a few hundred feet from the bus
station on the off chance they had a map of the city for us as we had no idea
what to see or where things where. The hostel came through for us and we repaid
their kindness by offering to take some of their business cards and information
back to ours in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for prospective tourists to Ramallah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">We decided to head over to Yasser Arafat’s tomb first having to navigate our way through the bustling market area with the market vendors exhorting the locals (we were the only tourists, I think) to buy, buy, buy their produce in very loud voices. I bought almost a kilo of what I hope are really soft dates after trying one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The downtown core was an
absolute madhouse with way too many cars trying to get around in too small an
area, much like </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. The walk to the tomb was only about 20 minutes away
but of course we needed some sustenance en route! We could smell the oh, so
delicious fresh bread smell wafting in the air from this small bakery before we
came across it. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Al Muqata’a</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, Arafat’s mausoleum, which is part of the Presidential
Palace, was heavily guarded but we were the only people anywhere around. Arafat
had wanted to be buried in </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">East
Jerusalem</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> but the Israelis
forbade that so the Mausoleum was built on water to express its temporariness
and is meant to be moved in the future to fulfill Arafat’s last wish. Somehow I
don’t think the Israelis will ever allow that to happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We just spent the next couple
of hours wandering through town seeing </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lions Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yasser Arafat Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and noticed several white UN jeeps while walking
around. Interesting to see the influential presence of the Quakers in the city
with the <b>Friends Girls School</b> founded in 1889 and the johnny come lately
<b>Friends Boys School</b> in 1901. The Girls’ school was also a boarding
school and attracted girls from surrounding communities including </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, Lod, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jaffa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Beirut.</span></st1:place></st1:city></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Interesting sign located on a side street just across from Arafat's Mausoleum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I MUST have been brain dead
forgetting to take photos of the shops in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s Gold Souk so can you please just let your mind
wander and pretend that these gold shops were in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and not in Ramallah!! We didn’t go in any of them so
I have no idea how their jewelry prices compared to the stores in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Sometimes, it’s best not to know, I figure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In case anyone forgot what Yasser Arafat looked like, here was another photo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We should have seen stairs
like these as we walked along </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Rainbow St</b>.</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> as there wasn’t anything we saw that made us think we’d
been on </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rainbow St.</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We’ve never been in a city
that is so tough to get around for foreign tourists. Street names have been
changed so trying to find some place on an old map is an ‘adventure’ shall we
say. We knew there was a </span><st1:place><b><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tourist</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Information</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Center</span></st1:placetype></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> tucked away on a back street but there were NO signs
indicating how to get to it either by car or on foot. We kept having to ask the
locals where it was. I asked the fellow inside about the lack of signage and he
mentioned that the office has been trying for a long time to persuade the
bureaucracy of the need for signage to no avail. I can only imagine how
frustrating it must be for the tourist office staff to work with such
constraints. There was no written
information available either to hand out describing what could be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Not sure if these views are
of Ramallah as it’s such a big city or other towns in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – there was no one to ask.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">We stumbled across the attractive </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dar</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Zahran</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Heritage</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Building</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> that has been the property of the Ramallite Zahran Jaghab, an Arab Christian family, for over 250 years. The traditional stone building served as a multi generational family home, guest chamber and residence of the Mukhtar or head of the town. It is now a cultural center and art gallery with a souvenir shop selling Fair Trade items made by mostly women from </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> communities. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I put the chair in the doorway
to demonstrate how very low the arches were. Luckily signs had been put up
warning people to duck their heads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The map shows where the
Center’s visitors have come from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">While I wandered
through the gallery, shop and museum areas, Steven talked with the family
member about his home and how life has changed for Arab Christians in Ramallah
since the 1</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Intifada. He commented
that he's perceived a marked lessening of hope for his people and sees no solution
to ease the ever increasing tension between the Israeli Jews and Arabs,
especially in the last two years. What a sad situation.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">He told Steven
that prior to the 1<sup>st</sup> Intifada from 1987-1993, Jews and Arabs had mingled
and worked alongside each other and that Arabs could easily go back and forth
to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> only 20 minutes away. It now takes Arabs
living in Ramallah up to 3 hours to go around </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to get to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, also in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He also indicated his concern
that the people realize they have fewer opportunities to eke out a living than
in the past and that the Arab extremists are making it difficult for all. He
expressed his fear what Ramallah will be like in a year or even two years
from now given the decline of hope and opportunities. How very depressing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I wonder who these men are or
were. Saw their stencils a number of places in Ramallah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Don’t know what
these things were - in hindsight of course, I should have tried them so I
could tell you!</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sorry these pictures are blurry but they were
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cars lining up to cross over
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Returning to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b> on the local bus</b> <b>was quite an experience.</b> We were, as
far as we could tell, the only non Arabs on the bus. At the checkpoint, all the
passengers had to get off the bus and line up in a large cage-like area while
the bus returned to Ramallah as it could not proceed through the checkpoint.
Steven and I waited for about 40 minutes while the passengers in front of us
were permitted to go through a vertical one way turnstile; sometimes 8-10
people, and other times only 3 or 4, were permitted to go through the turnstile
before it all of a sudden stopped with no warning whatsoever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I talked to several young
women waiting in line with us and asked them if it normally took them this long to cross back into </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> as they live in the city but need to use this
crossing twice a day, 5 days a week, since they go to university in Ramallah.
They said that often the crossing only takes a few minutes but this longer
crossing wasn’t that unusual. Surprisingly they didn’t seemed terribly fazed by the whole
process but I guess that's all they've ever known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We had previously crossed
twice from the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and had not encountered anywhere near this level of
security. We knew that if we had been on a tour bus, we would have faced only
the most superficial of scrutiny with the Israeli guard coming onto the bus,
looking at us all but NOT looking at anyone’s passports. That was certainly our
experience when we’d been on the day tour with the hostel to </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Masada</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
En Gedi Nature Reserve and to the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. When we
had crossed over from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> on a public bus about 10 days previously, we had
needed to get off the bus and go through security but again it was cursory at
best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the Ramallah crossing, there
were no Israeli guards we could see in the immediate vicinity. Once we finally
made it through the turnstile, we saw through a glass wall, 2 young Israeli
guards, who never talked and never smiled. We knew we had to hold up our
passports up against the window so the pertinent details could be recorded yet
again. We were then allowed to get on a bus that only goes from the border to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Steven and I found the whole border crossing process
this time very degrading and dehumanizing and we had a deeper understanding of
what many Arabs must contend with when dealing with the Israelis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Sheridan</b>, 29, our other
bunkmate for our last night at the Abraham Hostel in Jerusalem, is originally
from Melbourne, Australia but has lived in London for the past five and a half
years working most recently as a food technologist. Steven and I spent a lot of
time chatting with her and wished that we had more time to get to know her as
she was funny, interesting and delightful!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Final impressions about our trip to Israel: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Steven told me he had been
surprised returning to Israel from his last visit 40 years ago when he had
found the city of Jerusalem to be calmer then than now even though it had been
just 2 years since Israel had taken over much of the West Bank in the Six Day
War. This visit however, the sense of fervent religiosity, the underlying
tension we could sense between the Jews and Arabs, the constant police presence
which, instead of giving a sense of peace and security, makes one ill at ease,
plus the almost constantly pervasive dour personality of the Israelis, was not pleasant or comfortable.</span></div>
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was in the Arab communities of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> that we found
the people we talked with to be generally much friendlier and far more
welcoming than their Israeli counterparts. The Arabs we talked to, or stopped
on the streets asking directions, had, if not welcomed our intrusion, certainly
never once appeared to mind it. That was totally different from the Israelis on
the street who had a ‘Don’t Bother With Me’ look and in short just didn’t look happy. I wish we had an opportunity to speak to Israeli Jews to get their perspective of living with a strong Arab presence in such close proxomity so we could have understood their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We had originally planned to spend an
extra day in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> but had changed our plans about a week ago and were
relieved when we realized that the two days had been quite sufficient. On the 2<sup>st</sup>,
we got up early as we needed to get the </span><st1:time hour="8" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">8:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
local bus to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s capital city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – no chariot awaited us this time unfortunately to
drive us door to door! Instead the mini bus ride - on which I was the only
female of 22 passengers – only cost us a measly 7JD each, about $10, for the 3
hour ride. I loved the bus rides this whole trip as it meant my being able to
spend the time writing down the text for the blog posts on a Word document to
be saved until I had a wifi connection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Upon arrival at the Bus
Station, we got a taxi for only 5JD for the pretty lengthy ride in heavily
congested traffic to the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sydney</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hotel</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, located very close to the downtown core at the </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup> Circle</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
in my mind, should be nicknamed the ‘City of Circles’ as shops, sights etc are
all referenced by their location to a specific traffic circle. We had come to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> not to see its wondrous sights as there are, quite
frankly, not a whole lot of beauteous things in the capital, but as a way
station back to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> via the border crossing about an hour west of the capital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The restaurant at the Rocky
Mountain Hotel in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We had originally planned to
arrive in Amman a day later but Steven was very apprehensive about how much
time it might take crossing from the <b>King Hussein Bridge </b>(as the
Jordanians call the border crossing or the <b>Allenby Bridge</b> as it’s
referred to by the Israelis) to Israel near Jerusalem. He had read online about
tourists having experienced horror stories with border crossings taking up to 8
hours or even the border suddenly being closed altogether for no apparent
reason by the Israeli government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven had suggested that we give </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> a pass altogether because of the potential issue with
the border crossing but I insisted on our spending one full day in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Darlene, you may have guessed part of my reasoning!
He wanted us to build in an extra day so that if there were a problem, we could
travel all the way to the southern Jordanian border city of Aqaba, then cross
over to the Israeli city of Eilat and then go north all the way back up to
Jerusalem. What a nightmare that would be but I give credit to Steven for insisting
we have that extra day ‘just in case.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had done my research on </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and knew that prices for gold jewelry in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> are some of the cheapest in the world. Not only is
there a constant, massive demand in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for gold used in marriage dowries, but workmanship is
charged by weight here which is very ‘economical’ by world standards. The
upshot is that it’s well nigh impossible to find the same quality of gold
outside </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for less than three or four times the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> price. In the <b>Downtown Gold Souk</b>, which just
happened to be a 10 minute walk from our hotel, we could expect to pay just a
few measly dinars per gram for finished pieces in 21 carat gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, after again dumping our
bags at the hotel before the official check in time, we wandered down toward
the Gold Souk with my dreaming of what I just might want! We looked at a number
of small shops, all located within a couple of blocks of each other, each
displaying row upon row of shiny gold jewelry in their windows for all
passersby to admire and drool over. Almost all the designs were incredibly
ornate and even ostentatious according to our sensibilities but were obviously
a style favored by Arab women. After much deliberation and haggling, I bought a
pair of earrings for myself as well as a necklace and a pair of earrings for a
friend. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that you’ll love both items, Darlene, as
much as I do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hearing from afar the Muslim
Call to Prayers being amplified over the neighborhood’s public address system,
assured us we had to close to the <b>Al Husnyi</b></span><b style="font-size: 14pt;"> Mosque</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> so we walked over
there. It was closed to non Muslims then though but it was interesting to see,
through the arched doorways, just men praying to Allah. If there were a
separate women’s section, we didn’t see one at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Guidebooks call </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the stereotype of a Middle Eastern city loud with
traffic and voices, Arabic music blaring from storefronts and having an
‘unmissable street life.’ But for us, the entire downtown </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> area is not a peaceful, serene, or attractive place
to be in any way particularly for foreigners. The constant roar of honking
horns by impatient drivers wanting, in vain, to advance a few feet on narrow
streets not originally envisioned for so many vehicles competing for space,
made for an unsettling experience. Taxis, we found out, make up 25% of all cars
in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. It wasn’t surprising that very few of the vehicles
weren’t banged up as the level of driver courtesy and general rules of the road
we’re accustomed to was noticeably absent in Amman. I pity new car owners in
the city as I can’t envision any cars being dent free for any time at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wanting to get away from all
that madness, we ‘escaped’ into the market area on one of the side streets but
the noise level and the feeling of being was little better there. But at least
the sights of the fresh produce were better! I wonder what the huge leaves are inthe photo below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then, consulting our tour
information, we walked over to the Roman ruins that have survived and
intentionally incorporated into the everyday bustle of the city. Approaching
from </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>King Talal
St.</b></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, we
first encountered the huge </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Roman</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Theater</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> cut into a depression in the hillside and built between 169 and 177 AD
during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, for an audience of almost 6,000 people. I
read that, just like at the Theater in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turkey</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the theater has incredible acoustics. A person can
stand in ONE spot in the center of the Orchestra and speak in a normal voice
and will suddenly hear a penetrating echo. If you step off that spot, there’s
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We walked past the long </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Corinthian
Colonnade </b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in front of the Theater to the remains of </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Philadelphia’s Forum</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then we just wandered the
streets for a bit peering through darkened doorways of antique stores, souvenir
shops and small take out restaurants. At that point, we didn’t have much time
or energy to climb all the way to <b>Jabal Al Qal’a or Citadel Hill</b> so we
paid a taxi driver just 2JD to take us to the top. Neither of us realized until
we got out of the taxi, that the entire complex had shut down at </span><st1:time hour="15" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, 20 minutes earlier. I spoke to a number of Tourist
Police officers pleading that we still be allowed entry as were leaving their
beautiful country the next day, etc, etc and we thankfully gained entrance! Luckily
a tour group was there too so it’s not as if the area was kept open just for
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was so thrilled not to have
missed out on walking on Citadel Hill that had been a focus of human settlement
since the Paleolithic Age more than 18,000 years ago. We first came across the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></b></st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hercules</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> whose towering columns were visible from downtown
and, from the Hill, were dramatically silhouetted against the sky. The </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, built at the same time as the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Roman</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Theater</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, stands on a monumental staircase which formerly led
up from the lower city. From the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as sunset was approaching, we had striking panoramic
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day, we again hit ‘pay dirt’ when the guards so kindly allowed us to peek
inside for a few minutes. How incredibly fortunate we were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The huge </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Umayyad</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Palace</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> complex, which stretches over the northern part of the hill, was built
over pre-existing Roam structures and an entire colonnaded Roman street was
incorporated into it. Built around 730, when </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> was a provincial capital, the complex probably
combined the governor’s residential quarters with administrative offices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We quickly climbed the path
from the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hercules</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to a small ruined <b>Byzantine Church</b> dating from the 5th or 6<sup>th</sup>
centuries which reused many of the columns of the nearby temple. The church
formed part of a Byzantine town which probably covered much of Citadel Hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">After taking more photos of
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Later that night, we tried to find nearby </span><st1:street style="text-align: center;"><st1:address><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rainbow St.</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> that I had read about but gave up after climbing flights of stairs, some of which were crumbling, and still not discovering it.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The next morning, 11/3, we
returned to the <b>Gold Souk</b> looking at several stores until I found a second pair
of gorgeous drop earrings that was different from anything I’ve seen in the
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Steven the Navigator was able to get us to </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rainbow St.</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> pretty easily in the light of day but we both agreed
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We had arranged through the
hotel for a taxi to take us to the border crossing, located about an hour west
of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, at </span><st1:time hour="12" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">noon</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
fearing it may well take us the rest of the afternoon at least to cross over
because of the incredibly stringent Israeli security. We had been warned by the
Abraham Hostel in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> that the Israeli government often shuts down the
border altogether with no warning at the slightest hint of any possible
conflict. That was what we feared the most. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Scenes driving from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> east to the border with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Most of the delivery trucks in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> were gaily decorated just like these unlike trucks we’d seen in other Jordanian cities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I should have taken this
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to cross the border. Once through the formalities on the Jordamian side, we had to get into a shuttle to drive us the 8km through the no man's land to the Israeli border and the lines there. We only received our passports from the Jordanian </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">autho</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">rities once we were on the shuttle which was a tad unnerving not having them in our hot little hands the whole time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">But once again, Lady Luck was on our side and we sailed ‘right through’ with the process only taking an hour. Believe me the hour crossing the border seemed quite long and tedious especially being asked to show our passports about a half dozen times. To think what it could have been made us heave a huge sigh of relief though. The craziest thing was that it only took us two hours from the time we left our hotel to be back in Israel BUT we then had to wait 90 minutes for the shuttle to fill up before we could leave for the 30 minute drive into </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The infamous wall built by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> separating the country from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">Probably not the smartest
thing to do to take photos as we crossed the border, especially one as volatile
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">What a relief getting back to the <b>Abraham Hostel</b>, above and below, even if we were bunking down in a 4 bed dorm for the next 2 nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We only had one roommate the
1<sup>st</sup> night, the lovely <b>Bianca</b>, 26, from Bamberg, Germany who
had previously spent a year on a work exchange all over Australia before
spending another year traveling by
herself in S.E. Asia. She and I spent hours chatting about her travels, life
and the world around us. Again, we hope that we’ll see Bianca in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Colorado</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> someday soon if/when she makes it stateside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven and I were sad saying good bye to Jordan as we both felt that
the Jordanians were the friendliest and most welcoming of people we had
encountered all trip. Everyone we seemed to come into contact with from Aqaba in
the south to the guides in Wadi Rum to those in the capital city of Amman,
either on the street as we passed them by or when we stopped to ask directions
or in the stores and markets and especially the taxi drivers made a point of
saying ‘Welcome to Jordan.’ It didn’t matter that of course we didn’t speak
Arabic or even if they spoke little English, they were always willing to help
us. The people of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> were a distant second but only when viewed in comparison to the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Eating a lovely breakfast in
the large hotel restaurant overlooking the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">village</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wadi Musa</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> prepared us for another long day of hiking and climbing at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Our goal for the day was to see </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s most awe inspiring monument, the <b>Ad Deir</b> or <b>Monastery,
</b>located about 6km one way from the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Visitors</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Center</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. To reach it though meant retracing our steps from
the entrance all the way through the Siq canyon, past the spectacular Treasury
where we oohed and aahed again, to an area of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> beyond what we’d reached the previous day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As you can see from the
following photos, I loved seeing and hearing the carriages roar past us through
the canyon. I wondered how often there are crashes as they go at breakneck
speed with only the sound of the horses’ hooves to warn others of their
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Returning to the canyon meant
seeing it in a different light and also viewing items for the 1<sup>st</sup>
time like this water drainage system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This sand bottle business
often was the busiest enterprise in the park and usually had a throng of people
admiring the complexity of the sand designs that even had camels, the sun etc
inside. They were really works of art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I had talked to both of these
Bedouin females yesterday so I was glad to see them again today and also to be remembered
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Photos of the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Nabatean
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">First up was the imposing <b>Colonnaded
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We next saw <b>Qasr al Bint</b>,
probably the main temple of the Nabatean capital, and the only freestanding
building in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to have survived centuries of earthquakes and floods. The size of it was overwhelming as you could walk in it and around it to look closely as every detail if you wanted unlike the other monuments at Petra that are built durectly into the cliffs and rock faces.An added bomus for us too was that there was only one other tourist there when we arrived and he soon left so we had this huge temple to ourselves to appreciate.</span></div>
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<st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Brown</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> has contributed a good chunk of both money and
professional services toward the restoration of Qasr al-Bint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Getting to the monastery involves doing one of the most taxing hikes at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. It was daunting realizing that we had roughly 800 steps to climb after walking about 3 miles in order to reach the summit. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But walk it we did, disregarding the pleas of the countless donkey drivers who kept asking every few steps if we wanted a ‘taxi’ to the summit. Below is t</span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: center;">he ‘Donkey Station’ located just before you start climbing all those steps– it’s really called that, I’m not kidding!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Petra Archeological
Authority has recently developed the <b>‘Care for Petra’</b> campaign urging
all visitors to Think Before You Act by not touching or standing on the
monuments; to Think Before You Buy, especially from the children who were
everywhere hoping to sell a sealed pack of 14 postcards for only 1JD, ($1.40)
which keeps them out of school where they belong; and finally Think Before You
Ride as animals may look strong but have limits just like humans. The
silhouette in the brochure showed a rotund ‘John’ who should have considered
whether the animal can take comfortably take his weight. We were constantly
reminded of the last ‘rule’ as we sadly saw many very plump Americans riding the
small donkeys all the way up to the Monastery. We had never seen such a
brochure and just wish that it was publicized a thousand times better than it
was at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and that a similar brochure be adapted for other
sites around the world. Sorry, that was my rant for the day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Interesting seeing this
whitest of white rocks which was unlike any we’d seen that size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven on Step 2 of over 800.
I wonder if he’ll look quite so perky once he reaches the top!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Polish girl: another very
unusual bench photo for Pat! This metal one was </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">really bent</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was quite disheartening
seeing how many donkeys were abused by their handlers, being kicked and hit
with sticks repeatedly. If the thought of ever riding a donkey for any distance
ever entered my mind, it immediately disappeared after witnessing such inhumane
treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was - what can I say that I’ve not
already said so many times already in these many posts – beautiful,
breathtaking, awe inspiring, you name it and every superlative would aptly
describe the fantastic view in front of us. It has a massive façade almost 50m
square, carved from a chunk of mountain nearly an hour’s climb and 220 m above
the elevation of the visitors’ center. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We sat our weary bones down on the fairly
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As we ate, we noticed a man
had somehow climbed to very near the top of the Monastery in, what appeared to
be to any sane person, a certain death wish. Nobody knew whether to keep watching
or avert their eyes. Somehow, the idiot did manage to safely get down though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Walking to the Monastery or
anyplace in Petra always entails having to run through a gauntlet not only of
donkey or camel handlers, young children selling the postcards, but also coming
face to face with almost exclusively older women selling pashminas; the Arab </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">keffiyeh</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
or head covering first familiar to Westerners when it was worn by </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Yasser
Arafat</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and available not only in the traditional red check but also in
other colors; plus jewelry of every shape, form and description. These stalls,
or really shacks if I’m being honest here, were located every 30 or 40 feet as
you climbed up to the Monastery and likewise yesterday as we ascended the High
Place of Sacrifice. Upon approaching them, the women would plead with us, in
almost perfect English, to look at what they had and please buy from them. They
knew that few tourists would want to buy anything on the long way up to the
Monastery, so they said “We remember you on the way down.” Little wonder that
the 800 plus steps took longer than it ‘needed’ as it was impossible for us to
ignore ALL their pleas! </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only one way down, i.e. the
same way we had come up, so we couldn’t help but seeing the sellers again who
again gave us their sales pitch, saying that the number of tourists was
drastically down due to the war in neighboring Syria and its spillover effect
in Jordan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Instead of just returning to
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to get a much better view of them but I decided to give it a pass and meet him
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My last carriage shot at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – I was sad but Steven was thrilled not having to
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After so many hard slogs up
and down mountains and zillions of steps the last few days, we enjoyed sitting
down to a delicious meal in town before returning to the hotel. Jane, the
manager, told us she’s from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">New Zealand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> but had left there years ago to live in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> until moving to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> several years ago. She explained that the recent
influx of Syrian refugees has caused </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to be the second driest country in the world based on
the amount of accessible water per capita – something neither Steven nor I had
realized. She also told us that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s economy is based on tourism first, mining of
phosphates and lastly medical services. She said that people come from all over
the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for medical care in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was sad saying ‘goodbye’
to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> as we had a wonderful time visiting the ruins of the
ancient Nabatean civilization for the last two days. We were looking forward,
though, to going to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s capital city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amman</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> early the next day as it hopefully meant we’d not have
to do ANY more climbing of steps and mountains!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sasipin</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, a Thai woman, and her Japanese husband, <b>Hiroshi</b>,
whom Steven had met over dinner the night before, generously offered us a ride
in their rental car from Wadi Rum up to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. We had planned to take the local bus so being driven
in a car was a delightful treat indeed. The four of us were driven in the open
truck back to Wadi Rum from the Bedouin Lifestyle camp before we left about </span><st1:time hour="8" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">8:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for the 2 hour drive north to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Hiroshi works for a company in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tokyo</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> that owns Sprint so he come to </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Overland Park</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Kansas</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> pretty frequently on company business, he mentioned.
Sasipin told us that she flies back to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bangkok</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> at least once a year to visit her parents as she’s an
only child. She and Hiroshi have been married for 17 years and met in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thailand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, she explained. They came to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for a whirlwind 10 day visit and thus were only able
to spend a few hours camel riding and seeing a few sights in Wadi Rum; they
likewise only had the rest of the day to take in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s sights. Hiroshi dropped us off right in front of
our hotel which was aptly called the <b>Rocky Mountain Hotel!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The thoughtful Hiroshi from Tokyo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With Hiroshi, Sasipin and
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Loved this sign on the road
to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We had come to see <b>Petra
Archeological Park</b> which is actually right next to the small town of </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wadi Musa</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> located in the center of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985 and in 2007 it was voted one
of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The ancient city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (which is the Greek word for ‘rock’) was the capital
of the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Nabatean</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Kingdom</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The Nabateans, a nomadic Arab tribe that moved
across the deserts of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Arabian
Peninsula</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, were experts at
conserving water in the barren Arabian deserts; they engineered water systems
that collected, transported and stored ample water for the city’s population
and its visitors as well as for livestock and irrigation. Rainwater was
collected via open cisterns and reservoirs and then channeled to all parts of
the city for daily use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Nabateans were traders
long before the rise of their kingdom as trade was part of their nomadic
lifestyle. Incense was one of the main items traded by the Nabateans as it was
in high demand. The people also had several industries that supplied their
basic needs and produced items for export. They extracted bitumen and salt from
the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, which was used in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for mummification. They produced balsam and mined
copper and iron, produced perfumes using plant oils and frankincense, grew
grapes and used pottery to make bowls, plates, jugs as well as clay pipes to
transport water. What an incredibly civilized society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were again so fortunate being
able to check into the hotel mid morning even though the official check in time
was hours later. We dumped our stuff and paid the flat rate for taxi fares
around town of 3JD ($4.20) to take us to the Visitors’ Center. Certainly a
different experience there as we had to queue for quite a while, then show our
passports and pay the hefty fee of 55JD each, about $77, for a 2 day
personalized ticket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Once done with the
formalities, we walked more than 3km along the main path through </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s central valley downhill on stony ground through a
massive canyon. It was great walking down even though we realized there was a
drop in altitude from 1027m at the entrance to 861m at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s city center; that’s equivalent to a 40 story
skyscraper and meant we had tired thighs to look forward to on the way back up!
Some people opted not to walk but take a carriage or horseback ride instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Walking through
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small groups of people ahead and behind us was thrilling but we did need to
have our wits about us and listen for the clickety clack of carriage wheels as
they roared past us through the canyon.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sights in the Siq, emerging from it we suddenly came face to face with the awe
inspiring <b>Al-Khazneh</b>, known in English as the Treasury. It’s the pride
and joy of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the most beautiful monument there. It was carved in the 1<sup>st</sup>
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on one of the benches admiring the Treasury's columns and exquisite detailing carved
directly from the cliff face, watching others see it for the first time, being
approached by a number of men offering carriage rides and others hoping we’d
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Past the Treasury and the
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tombs with intricate carvings. The <b>Theater</b> looks Roman but was erected
by the Nabateans in the 1<sup>st</sup> C. A.D. It’s carved into solid rock
except towards the front on either side where part of it was built
freestanding. Initially it could seat 3,000 people but was later extended to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Leaving the Street of Facades, we climbed many flights of steps,
a total of 550 steps, cut into the rock to reach the <b>High Place of Sacrifice</b>,
which was the venue for important religious ceremonies honoring Nabatean
ceremonies.I couldn't resist taking a photo of this donkey who was standing rather precariously on a flat rock face high above all the surrounding ones. Don't know how he got up or would get down.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Two young girls selling
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both over 6m high, that probably represent the chief male and female Nabatean
deities. The extraordinary thing is that they are solid and instead of being
placed there, to leave them sticking up, this entire side of the mountaintop
had to be leveled.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The spectacular view of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> from atop the <b>High Place of Sacrifice</b> was our reward for the climb. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rather than simply retracing
our steps, instead we took the steps leading down off the back of the mountain.
The breathtaking views and some of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Petra</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s most extraordinary rock coloring made the longer
hike worthwhile, not even taking into account the wealth of Nabatean
architecture at every turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Can you imagine being on the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Look closely here and you can
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This lovely, warmand vibrant woman got me at a weak
moment and I ended up buying several items from her. She was thrilled as was I
which was the perfect combination in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Part of the water collection system the Nabateans were famous for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The interior of the <b>Roman
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I fell in love with the
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Place of Sacrifice. As there was no discernible path either unlike where we’d
been earlier in the day, it got rather hairy for a bit especially as time was
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A view across the cvalley of the magnificent <b>Royal
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Corinthian Tomb</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These were some of the stalls
set up to sell items to tourists wanting to view the <b>Royal Tombs</b>. Since it was
getting late, the vendors had gone home for the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The <b>Palace Tomb</b> was named tha because it had the appearance of a palace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A sand design being made; we heard various reports as to how long it takes to learn how to do this well, from as short a time as 6 months to as long as a couple of years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Once again, another fabulous
day spent hiking among the ruins of a bygone civilization but with camels and
donkeys as our companions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-85077334131384056582014-11-04T01:34:00.001-07:002016-09-18T08:12:20.583-06:0010/30: Our Last Mountain Climb - EVER!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When I made the reservation
for us to travel for 2 days and nights with Bedouin Lifestyle back in March,
our plan for the second day was to climb Jabal Al Hash, one of the smaller
mountains in the desert. But when we had arrived at Wadi Rum the day before
from Aqaba, Atallah, the tour operator owner, thought we should climb <b>Jabal
Um Addami</b> since it would take more time and fill up more of the day. Am I
being too cynical wondering if just possibly the factor of his earning more
money because of its greater distance was part of the equation? We didn’t
realize then that Um Addami is, in fact, the country’s highest mountain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were thrilled that
Mahmoud, our wonderful driver/guide/cook from yesterday, would be with us again
today. But sadly we had to say goodbye to Ben and Dominik who were going camel
riding for a couple of hours before leaving Wadi Rum. I hope Ben managed the
camel ride OK as he had been sick the night before and the thought of being
jostled up and down for even a couple of hours with an upset stomach didn’t
sound like the best medicine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I chatted for a good while
with this older couple from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rotterdam</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
now living in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Hague</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Netherlands</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> over breakfast. They were visiting </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for 10 days and even though she’s still working, they
spend lots of time traveling. They had recently returned from an extended
vacation to northern </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Peru</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and the Galapagos which sounds like a huge amount of
fun too. They were going on the camel ride with Ben and Dominik.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After a cold breakfast of
flatbread, jam, hardboiled eggs and hummus, Steven and I climbed back up on the
back of the ancient </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Toyota</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for the very windy and chilly 20 km ride through the
desert to Jabal Um Addami. We were still so cold from not having had much sleep
because it had been so cold all night, that both of us wore our heavy coats and
gloves. Even so, it was uncomfortably chilly facing forward into the wind, so
for most of the drive I was gazing backwards.</span></div>
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flabbergasted how Mahmoud could possibly figure out which of the many tracks
that were available to take to reach the mountain. To foreigners, after a while
all the mountains, outcroppings of rock, sand dunes began to look very similar
yet Mahmoud unerringly knew which track to follow even when faced with several
options. Of course, there are no such things as signposts or mile markers
anywhere in the vast desert to guide you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was all the more amazing
considering that Mahmoud had only moved to the deserts of Wadi Rum from the
fairly big city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Aqaba</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to be a driver and guide. Mahmoud told us, in his
broken English, that he had only learned to speak English from tourists in the
four months since working for Atallah and Bedouin Lifestyle. He had had enough
of living in the city and wanted the peace and serenity of the desert. I’m
putting words in his mouth here but that was the gist of what he meant! I
wonder how long it took him to know exactly which ‘roads’ in the desert to take
the tourists when he first started working as a guide and how often he got
lost!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There was a surprising amount
of green vegetation as we drove to southern </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to the country’s highest peak. Seeing so much
greenery in the area was a huge difference from the areas we’d been in just
yesterday when there had been so little color anywhere on the desert floor.
Steven thought the preponderance of short green shrubs gave the impression of
the desert appearing totally green as we ‘raced’ by. I could certainly see what
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the few times we saw
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When we arrived at the bottom
of the mountain above, it didn’t take me long to figure I was going to leave in the
locked car, my small daypack which is my constant companion the whole trip, and
also my purse which contained my indispensable notepad and pen that I have
always with me so I can jot down notes to include in the blog. I knew I needed
to be carry as little as possible if I had any hope of reaching the mountain’s
summit 800m or 2400 feet WAY WAY above us. I of course did not part with my beloved
little Cannon camera that is always on my right wrist ready to take a photo and
has become almost a second skin this trip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mahmoud thoughtfully asked us
if we wanted to have tea and a huge coffee cake up at the top and we said
thanks but no thanks, not wanting him to have to lug the kettle, propane and
the other paraphernalia up that long way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven carried his backpack
and our precious bottle of water for a good part of the way before Mahmoud
kindly took it from him and carried it the remaining way up and back. Oh, to be
young and agile!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I chose to bring my scarf I
had picked up in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> along on the hike rather than my hat. Mahmoud
thoughtfully wrapped it around my head, <i>keffiyeh</i> style, so it wouldn’t keep
flapping in the wind and obstruct my vision.</span></div>
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T<span style="font-size: 14pt;">here was no such
thing as blazes on the path indicating which way to go as we’re accustomed to
when hiking back in the States. Likewise, there was no one ‘right’ way or route
to reach the top, more a matter of climbing on and on over rocks and hoping
that they wouldn’t cause a small rockslide for the person behind you. Some
parts of the ascent were noticeable easier than others and I felt confident I
could proceed without any assistance. But then of course, we’d hit a
particularly steep part and Mahmoud insisted I clamp my hand on his wrist so he
could half pull, half drag me up until we reached an easier bit. He never
extended his hand to me to hold onto though – perhaps a case of Muslim
sensibilities?</span><br />
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mountain. Mahmoud built one as did we – I wonder how long it will last before
being toppled over by a human hand or the fierce desert wind.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: left;">Intriguing seeing the different terrain as we climbed the mountain; a small part of it was a rocky path, another just sand, then of course the steep parts where you needed all your wits about you.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mahmoud had climbed the
mountain several times before, he explained, so knew generally the easiest ways
to take 2 old folk up but even he had to ask us to wait a few times while he
went ahead and scouted out the best way to proceed. We didn’t mind at all his
telling us to wait as it meant we could just sit back and recoup our energy
before continuing our ascent! Mahmoud made a point of saying to us any number
of times that we only need tell him when we wanted or needed him to stop so we
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After climbing AND stopping for rest breaks for about 2.5 hours and only seeing 3 other people the entire time, we finally reached the summit
thankfully! What an amazing sight to see </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s flag flying in the breeze atop the mountain. Mahmoud
explained that the stark, black mountains directly across from us belonged to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and that his phone, which had stated chirping near
the top, had indicated he had a Saudi Arabian internet connection!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wonderful relaxing for a
while and watching 4 desert rodents taking turns drinking water from the bottle cap Mahmoud
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Have never climbed a mountain
and been able to touch a flag at the top before so it was neat holding hands
with Steven with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s flag in the background. I wonder how long it had been up there as it
didn’t appear too weathered. A number of people had signed it and included
their countries of origin too; we chose to leave only our memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The summit of <b>Jabal Um
Addami</b> is a full <b>800m or 2400 feet</b> from the desert floor where we’d left
the truck! Steven and I felt every inch and foot of those as we climbed the
mountain, believe me. We vowed never to climb another mountain as the ascent
was, as my mother would have said, bloody hard. I haven’t had a good sense of
balance for a number of years so felt both climbing up AND down was more
dangerous for me and Mahmoud, who held on to me for a good part of the way, than it would have been for someone with better
balance and knees in decent shape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That’s </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> across the horizon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our guide/cook/driver, Mahmoud,
at the summit. He’s a fairly big smoker but he conveyed that it was difficult
for even him to climb to the top because of his decreased lung capacity – even so,
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It ook us about 90 minutes to climb down which was a lot faster
than we had gone up but we still needed a few rest breaks to gather our breath
and drink the last few sips of bottled water. The thought of the tea Mahmoud
had kindly offered us much earlier sounded very attractive right about now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Finally back by the truck at </span><st1:time hour="13" minute="40"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1:40</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> which was such a wonderful feeling after leaving it
for the big climb about 9:30. We left immediately to find a shady place to prepare lunch as we'd certainly earned some hot food after all that strenuous activity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Interesting lines in the hard
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A huge amount of camel hair
near where we ate lunch. I have no idea how it came to be there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Loved the pale, almost peachy
color of these rocks I collected. Little wonder why my suitcase is darn heavy
to lug around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mahmoud talked to this sheep herder
and discovered he’s from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> but working in the Wadi Rum area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A selfie from the back of the
truck just on the off chance you might have forgotten what we both look like!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Since there was no need to
return to camp anytime soon, Mahmoud asked us if we’d like to walk for a while in
the desert. We both said yes so he drove us to the bottom of another sand dune where
clambered up. Saw this huge black beetle there, the first one we'd seen in the desert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Again, more of the gorgeously
rippled sand I’ve always associated with the word ‘desert.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wonder what caused these whispery lines in the sand?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What a sight to behold after
another long day in the desert: Bedouin Lifestyle Camp, our home away from home for another night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We only saw 8 people the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Photos of the bathroom I
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The shower area, just to the
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rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What a stupendous view from
our little hut, wouldn’t you agree? We couldn’t keep the door open long though
because it was getting very cold already even though it was only </span><st1:time hour="17" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">5ish</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The best of all in my
opinion: Steven returning ‘home.’ I know that may sound schmaltzy to the extreme but that's the way I feel even after traveling and being together virtually 24/7 for about 90 days by this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Park close to our hotel in
Aqaba.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Beautiful Jordanian flags: I love flags that aren’t just stripes as I tend, after a while, to forget which country had which combination of colors and in what order. Flags like Jordan's aren't as easily forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A photo of the exterior of
the <b>Golden Rose Hotel</b> where we stayed in Aqaba - certainly not the swankiest of hotels as you can see but it wasn't a mixed dorm at least plus we had our own bathroom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We were picked up by a taxi
at 8 that took us to the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">village</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Wadi Rum, </b>which is also known as the Valley of the Moon<b>,</b></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> about an hour’s drive away to the northeast.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wadi Rum</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (rhymes with ‘dumb’, not ‘doom’) is one of the most spectacular natural environments in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and a major highlight of a visit to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The wadi itself is one a sequence of parallel faults forming valleys in the desert and the giant granite, basalt and sandstone mountains rise up to 800m sheer from the desert floor. The rocky landscape has been weathered over the millennia into bulbous domes and weird ridges, textures and fascinating color differentiation. Split through by networks of canyons and ravines, spanned by naturally formed rock bridges and watered by hidden springs, the mountains offer opportunities galore for scrambling and rock climbing where a person can walk for hours or days without seeing another soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Although and arid, open
desert, the Rum area is far from depopulated with tents of semi nomadic Bedouin
scattered in the desert and a few villages in the area. During the peak months
of March, April, September and October, the desert around Rum are thronged with
visitors, there for just a few hours to go camel riding or a whirlwind visit to
take in the sights or some like us to spend 2 full days in the desert. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rum is a ‘protected area’
with controls in place to limit environmental degradation while supporting
sustainable tourism though bureaucratic disputes hamper efforts. Some observers
question the benefits brought by ‘protected area’ status, amid claims that the
core area of Wadi Rum has seen accelerated decline in recent years, caused by
at least 1200 4x4s and the presence of 65 tourist camps within the <b>Protected
Area</b> alone. Nonetheless, UNESCO declared Rum as a natural/cultural World
Heritage site in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wandering through the tiny </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">village</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wadi Rum</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, before we had to leave for the tour at 10, reminded us quickly we
were in a different world and one we couldn’t wait to discover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">T.E. Lawrence (‘of </span></b><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Arabia</span></b></st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’)</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> waxed
lyrically about the Rum area, describing it as ‘vast, echoing and godlike’ when
he passed through in the years during the 1916-1918 Great Arab Revolt.
Appropriately enough, much of the epic Lawrence of Arabia was filmed here in
the 1960’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven and I left about for
our 2 day tour with Bedouin Lifestyle accompanied by 2 wonderful young Austrian
men, <b>Ben and Dominik</b>, both of whom have been living in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Zurich</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
</span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Switzerland</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> for a number of years. Unfortunately for us, they
were only going to be spending the first day with us seeing the most famous
sights before going camel riding the next day for a few hours and then
returning to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Switzerland</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. They’d spent the last 10 days in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> starting off their trip in the country’s far north.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our first stop was just a few
minutes’ drive from the village of Wadi Rum at the many centuries old single, semi
ruined <b>Nabatean Temple</b>. The temple, built in the 1<sup>st</sup> C. B.C.
had rock art drawings from that period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our guide/driver/cook was the
very mature 21 year old <b>Mahmoud</b> who did a wonderful job ensuring we had
plenty of snacks, juices and bottled water as we set off sitting on pretty
comfortable seats in the bed of a very ancient </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Toyota</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Unlike some of the other 4x4s we saw, ours had a
covered top which thankfully protected us from the very hot sun. Climbing in
and out of the truck bed onto the bent bumper, held onto the truck only by a
skinny rope, soon became second nature as we had to do it so many times.
However, it did not make for the most graceful of moves and is certainly not
recommended if you have bum knees or other joints!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We had an absolute blast
chatting with both of them: Ben, 31 this week and on the left above, is quadrilingual, speaking French,
Spanish and absolutely perfect idiomatic and almost completely accent free
English in addition to his native German; he had already traveled extensively
earlier this year and after working for a couple of weeks or so, he’ll be on
the road again. This time, he’s going to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Uruguay</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and then meeting his younger sister in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Argentina</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where the two of them will travel before going on to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chile</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for a total of another month. Steven and I got the
impression that work is just a necessary evil for him to travel the world! Ben
would be a wonderful ‘catch’ for any woman as he’s good looking, smart, witty,
flirtatious and a real gem. But he said that his young looking appearance has
been a drawback attracting the fairer sex unfortunately. Here’s hoping you soon
meet your dream woman, Ben.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After driving some more, we next hiked through an area called <b>Khazali</b></span><st1:place style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Canyon</span></st1:placetype></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>. </b>Above<b>, </b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ben passed a fig tree while talking
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‘titanic chunk of mountain,’ was supposedly named after a criminal, Khazali,
who was pursued up to the summit and, with nowhere to run, he miraculously
floated to earth and landed unharmed. The mountain’s north face is split by a
mammoth canyon; on the walls are stylized rock drawings of people, horses and
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Dominik</b>, 28, is shyer than his more outgoing friend of about 2 years; he, too, loves to travel and will soon be off to visit Eva, his girlfriend who’s living in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Valencia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, but who plans to join him in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Zurich</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> soon, he hopes. What a delightful pair of men to be traveling with if only for a few short hours. Steven and I hope that both of them will find their way to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Denver</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at some point so that we can wine and dine them chez nous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our next stop was here at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Burdah</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rock</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bridge</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">where we
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">More climbing up and then
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Fascinating to see how the
desert changed from areas of sand alone to areas comprising a fair amount of
vegetation only a short distance away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: center;">Nearby was a brief rest stop where we had a choice of Bedouin tea which we all declined since it hot enough out already. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: center;">It was a tad bizarre seeing items available for purchase here like Kohl eye makeup, scarves, bedouin tea, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I think Mahmoud sensed we
were beginning to tire somewhat as it was well after 2 before he stopped the
truck in a mountain’s shadow (Ben: that’s for you!) so we could enjoy a well
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lunch prep desert style!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another guide wandered over
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the few smiling photos I could capture of Mahmoud, our indefatigable guide/cook/driver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lunch was an al fresco feast
of hummus, salad (my contribution to the cause), and a delicious mixture of
cooked onions, peppers, canned tomatoes, beans, with cold canned corn, tuna, olives and flatbread on the side. We also had a choices of juice or bottles of water or hot tea to wash down the meal with. Then dessert after that too! Mahmoud easily made enough food for 8 which we later found
out was the Bedouin way of cooking so that nobody ever leaves hungry. The
leftover food was left out for desert animals to find and enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hiking through </span><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Burrah</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Canyon</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was our next opportunity to climb out of the truck and get some more
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Umm Froth Rock Bridge</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was another stop included, not surprisingly, on all
tour operators’ itineraries. The rock bridge rises majestically from the desert
floor and was popular with the more adventurous and dare devils who climbed the
rocks, then onto a narrow ledge before reaching the actual bridge itself. There
was no way I was going anywhere near there but Steven braved life and limb to
go up – good for you, hon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The intrepid Ben and Dominik
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My ever loving Steven so very
close to where Ben and Dominik had just been. My heart was beating a mile a
minute and my hnds were all clammy watching him up there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I stayed safe and sound on
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another excuse to throw sand
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In all the many, many
kilometers we drove that day, this was the 1<sup>st</sup> time we saw the sand
looking like this, with the beautiful ripples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How positively blissful
walking to the top of this small mountain at Mahmoud’s suggestion to sit a
spell and watch the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After viewing the absolutely gorgeous sunset, we walked a few
minutes to the nearby <b>camel camp</b>. After last year’s misadventure with
riding a camel in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mongolia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, I didn’t ever think I wanted to get too close to a
camel again but I changed my mind after seeing these ones. I still didn’t want
to go for a camel ride, though, as the last one had been so unpleasant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ww then walked a mere 10 minutes to the <b>Bedouin
Lifestyle Camp</b> where we were given the key to Hut ‘5’ although the key had
a number 0 on it which is actually number 5 in Arabic. Pretty confusing, huh! We
collapsed for an hour or so inside our cozy abode that had a double bed, an
overhead light and nothing else. I was thrilled to see the adjacent bathrooms
were far more modern than MANY a bathroom we’ve used this trip. Surprise,
surprise, it had running water, albeit cold, flush toilets, lovely tile floors
and walls all built right into the mountain. All this in the middle of nowhere
too – wonders will never cease! Rereading what I’ve just written makes me feel
old as I can’t imagine any ‘young’ person would care one tuppence about the
state of the bathroom facilities as do we older folk! <i>Oops, after all that talk about the bathrooms, I realize now those photos are </i></span><i style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">with tomorrow's photos. I will include them then! My apologies.</i></div>
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Bedouin dinner</b> appear was intriguing: It’s cooked for a long time in a
‘zarb’ which is an underground oven comprised of 3 tiers, each divided from the
other by about 6”. The bottom layer had roast potatoes and onions, the second
had tomatoes and other vegetables and the top tier had chicken pieces in a
delicious seasoning. All the guests had gathered around as the cook unveiled
dinner by digging away the sand covering the cooked food, then carefully haul
it up and remove the tin foil to the oohs and aaahs of everyone present. There
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After dinner, most of the
guests gathered around the fire sitting on low cushions and listened to four of
the guides sing traditional Bedouin songs and play their native instruments. As
I mentioned, there were just the four of us on our small tour but Bedouin
Lifestyle is a large operator offering camel rides, hiking and jeep tours for
just a few hours or overnight or 2 or 3 nights so there were people at dinner
from a huge assortment of tours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We didn’t stay outside long
as it was getting decidedly chilly. The temperature the two nights we stayed at
the camp was only 7 degrees Celsius and it was awfully cold all night long with
just one, albeit very thick, fleece blanket on the bed. We had the good sense
to get a second blanket for our next night!</span></div>
Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-39670762647452859062014-11-02T13:56:00.001-07:002016-09-18T08:12:20.576-06:0010/28: Aqaba, Jordan on the Red Sea<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were up early to get the </span><st1:time hour="7" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">7am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> bus from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s Central Bus Station for the 4 plus hour ride to<b> </b></span><st1:place><st1:city><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Eilat</span></b></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s southernmost city on the border with both </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. As I
mentioned in a previous post, we were on the same two lane road for much of the
trip we’d been on days earlier when’d taken the day trip to Masada, En Gedi and
the Dear Sea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Upon arrival at Eilat, we
immediately got a taxi to the Jordanian border crossing 5 kms north. Steven and
I both remarked that we’d never seen an emptier border crossing in our lives;
it was only us and 2 Singaporean women who had been on the bus crossing over to
</span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Aqaba</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, no other people or cars, nothing – altogether strange its being
so deserted at a major crossing. We had to get a Jordanian visa and had to hand
over our passport a couple of time but the whole process went off with nary a
hitch and without having to pay a penny OR fill out any forms, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">When all the border formalities were over, we got a
fixed rate taxi to our hotel where we stayed for just one night. Saw a large number of murals on the
way into town from the bus station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We needed to stay in Aqaba one
night before heading out at 8 the next morning for our ride to Wadi Rum because
our tour there started at 10. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s beach resort town of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Aqaba</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the country’s southernmost city and is located on
the </span><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Red Sea</span></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Some of the best diving and snorkeling in the world
is centered on the unspoiled coral reefs just south of the city center. It
would have been fun to explore the reefs but we didn’t have that sort of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">First off, we
walked through the fairly small market area as we always find produce and
clothing markets fascinating. We didn't realize that we'd see in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> a gazillion sand sculptures when we saw
these first ones in Aqaba.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The BIGGEST cabbages we've ever seen. Wonder how many people could be fed on St. Patrick's Day with just one of them!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A local bakery
where we bought some rolls to munch on while sightseeing; it turned out one had
yummy chocolate inside and the others had what we think was a cooked fig
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Behind the market was one of
the city’s beautiful mosques. located on the beach road, known as the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Corniche</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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to the city beach which, as we had been told by the hotel, was not nearly as
attractive or conducive to tourists as the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">South</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Beach</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Oh well, it was
still interesting seeing the local women on the beach wearing the full
jet black Arab dress and head covering and a number of boat owners pleading
that they take us out for a boat ride in their glass bottomed boats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The guide showed Steven how
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wandered back to
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aqaba's </span><st1:place><b><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Great</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Arab</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Revolt</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Plaza</span></st1:placetype></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> right by the beach. The tower was so
tall, the only way I could've gotten it all in was to have taken the photo from
a number of feet out in the sea!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Certainly one of
the more unusual benches we've seen this trip. I joked that we should put
together a series of simply bench photos but Steven was not quite as
amused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As we walked past the long
named mosque again, this man stopped and gave us a business card with some Muslim
links and his email on it asking us to contact him if we needed information on
Islam. We thanked him and disposed of the card later. The mosque was beautifully photogenic though, I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This large scale ship model
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our ‘real destination’ was
getting an ice cream cone at the McDonald’s we’d passed on the way into town!
So very strange seeing the ad for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys as we’d
not seen or heard about them in at least 10 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My oldest friend, Lina from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ottawa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, had sent me an email asking if I could say a prayer
for her that day in a ‘house of worship’ as she was responsible for a major
fundraiser that evening. Steven and I pored over the map and luckily found a
Catholic church not too far away and made our way there. We thought the church
was closed for the day since it was so dark and deserted but fortunately it was
still open. We turned on the lights, I lit a candle and said a prayer wishing
you every success that night, Lina, my dear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The sun was setting much to our surprise because it was then only </span><st1:time hour="16" minute="45"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4:45</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> but we headed back to the hotel. Steven wisely asked the man at the hotel the local time which was an hour later than it had been in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> which had switched to Daylight Savings Time. Thank goodness he did ask as otherwise we would have missed the taxi that was picking us up at 8 the next morning to drive us north to Wadi Rum!</span></div>
Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-28672765098485472792014-11-01T14:57:00.002-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.753-06:0010/27: A Visit to Bethlehem, the Cradle of Christianity<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">On Monday, October 27<sup>th</sup>,
Steven and I returned to the Palestinian bus station taking the bus this time
to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. It’s located
geographically just 15 minutes or so from Jerusalem but in an area controlled
by the Palestinian Authority so that is ‘feels’ like it’s in another country
hundreds of miles away. Although a few decades ago most residents were
Christian, today the great majority of Bethlehem’s 40,000 residents are Muslim, as
is the case in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It only cost us 21</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">NIS</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> each, about $2.50, to ride the snazzy Greyhound-like bus
from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Steven commented that the gaily decorated bus reminded
him a lot of the buses he’d been on in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> some 40 plus years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Steven and I were both
mystified as to where </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> ended and the city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> began as we saw no real demarcation point the way the
bus driver took us. There were housing developments the entire way in between
the two cities. We did see a short stretch of the controversial solid concrete wall
that snakes through the Judean hills which divides </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and B’hem. The bus though just sailed through the
crossing without stopping because, as we were later told, the Israelis don’t
care who goes to the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">; they only care who wants to enter areas controlled
by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. However, there were large red signs up notifying
Israelis they’re forbidden to enter the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As soon as the bus stopped,
there was a scrum of men at the door all shouting at the passengers ‘Taxi,
taxi.’ Not knowing how far it was to reach the Church of the Nativity and the
other churches that Bethlehem is so famous for, we did take one with the driver
hoping that we’d therefore hire him to take us to some of the West Bank
settlements and be our guide for as long as possible. He was disappointed when he
dropped us off at the market when we’d insisted on only wanting to see the
churches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Partial view of </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Manger Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with the <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Mosque of Omar</b>, the city’s largest Muslim house
of worship, </span>on the right. The
Church of the Nativity is on the left, i.e. behind where I was standing. I must
admit being surprised and disappointed looking at what </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Manger Square</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> was like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After walking through the vibrant souk, we reached </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s central plaza<b>, </b></span><st1:street><st1:address><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Manger Square</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and immediately walked into the <b>Palestine Tourist Information Office. </b>The two women inside were exceptionally welcoming, giving us bookmarks and allowing us to choose any 2 of the beautiful posters they had. We’ve never received such service before and noticed that other tourists were not given the same ‘Welcome Package’ and don’t know why we rated!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Outside the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Information</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Center</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> was a large display telling </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s view of the occupation of their lands
by the Israelis. The map shows how their land has been greatly reduced since 1946. Steven and I found it fascinating reading about what has gone on
from the Arab perspective since that’s not the side we’re normally exposed to through
the news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We then walked to the other side of manger Square to the <b>Church
of the Nativity </b>which has been and will continue to undergo extensive
renovations. I didn’t know that the Church, like </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also shared by
different denominations: the Greek Orthodox, the Latins (RC’s) represented by
the Franciscan order and the Armenian Orthodox. The same 19<sup>th</sup> C.
Status Quo Agreement froze their respective rights so that ownership, the
timing of ceremonies, the number of oil lamps etc are all clearly defined.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks-pdjCHWjXHWKGHmEx6tGOMp7HZownUkYik-bX7oppJ300VFTLuGz20MWrTzIg0ruB16A2ueCcMmFYcY3hs8SeTECq_FHVjYTEUCLN1FQAKoRH_qqMtA0b5JEYb-vI40bpbVCp7H9GE/s1600/IMG_0996.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks-pdjCHWjXHWKGHmEx6tGOMp7HZownUkYik-bX7oppJ300VFTLuGz20MWrTzIg0ruB16A2ueCcMmFYcY3hs8SeTECq_FHVjYTEUCLN1FQAKoRH_qqMtA0b5JEYb-vI40bpbVCp7H9GE/s1600/IMG_0996.JPG" height="640" width="480" /></a><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some background:</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The church is the oldest standing one in the country.
When the Persians invaded in 614 they destroyed every single church and
monastery in the country except this one. Legend holds that the church had a
wall painting depicting the Nativity tale, including the visit to the infant
Jesus by the Three Wise Men of the East. To the local artist, ‘east’ meant </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Persia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> so he dressed his wise men in Persian garb. The
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picture’s significance but ‘recognized’ themselves in the painting and this
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The interior of the church is gloomy so when you
add in all the scaffolding in place, it was difficult unfortunately to
appreciate what I’m sure must be a beautiful church. As soon as we entered, we
joined the long line of people waiting to enter the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Grotto of the Nativity</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. While Steven held my place in line, I walked around taking photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once a cave and the type of place that might
have been used as a barn, the grotto has become plastered and decorated beyond
recognition. After waiting in line for about an hour, we finally had about 3
seconds each to see the small altar; on the floor beneath is the focal point of
the entire site: a 14 point star with the Latin inscription translated as ‘Here
of the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ was born.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Just a few steps from the altar is an alcove, guarded by the Franciscans, that is believed to be the manger where the
infant Jesus was laid. How incredibly moving it was for even a somewhat lapsed
Catholic to be in such a holy site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We descended steps from the church to see a number of dim grottoes that were once used as living quarters. Chapels here were dedicated to Joseph, the Innocents killed by Herod the Great and to the 4<sup>th</sup> C. <b>St. Jerome</b> who is credited for writing the Latin translation of the Bible right here. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">We heard a tour guide relate that if he hadn't translated the Bible, there would have been NO Christian church and that he made it possible for people to understand the Word of God. The King James version of the Bible, done in 1611, was translated into English from St. Jerome's Latin version.</span><br />
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who had done it, these boys looked at me with such innocence and glee in their
eyes. Of course, I turned around and did it right back at them a moment later
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Palestinian taxis have green
license plates and all other Palestinian vehicles have white license plates
compared to the yellow plates that are used in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many tourists choose to hire
a taxi to visit Bethlehem’s other famous sights for Christians, Shepherd’s
Fields, Rachel’s Tomb and Milk Grotto Chapel and also visit some of the refugee
camps but we were content seeing the Church of the Nativity and Manger Square.
We spent quite a bit of time walking through the Arab souk on our way back to
the bus stop and our short ride back to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, a world inaccessible to almost all the inhabitants
of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. What an incredible journey to be there in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and visit the birthplace of Christianity.</span></div>
Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-36883771089264486362014-11-01T11:12:00.004-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.757-06:0010/26: The Mount of Olives & Gdn of Gethsemane<span style="font-size: 14pt;">On Sunday,
October 26</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, after taking Bus #75 from the Palestinian bus station
at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate to the top of the Mount of Olives on the east side of Jerusalem,
we toured sites holy to Christians the world over. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was an another
type of religious experience in my opinion touring on a Sunday. Our first stop was the <b>Chapel of the Ascension, </b>below, where we were lucky enough to be the only visitors:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As we walked down
the narrow, steep winding road from the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Olives</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, we could see thousands upon thousands of
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saw this sign for
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The guide told us
that the tombs were for the prophets Malachi, Hakai and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Zecchariah. The tombs only had names on the
stones, he said, not on the walls. People in that time were much shorter than
the present day and that was why the tombs, that were always kept open, were
only 1 m deep by 2 m long, he said.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Zeccariah’s
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have a square arch, he stated. Jews come to leave written prayers in the crevices
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We continued our
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Next saw and
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before. A Mass was being said in Italian in the small church and another one in
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was
spellbinding listening to the simultaneously competing sounds of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">both masses being said as well as the Muslim
Call to Prayer being amplified over the neighborhood’s PA system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Behind the high
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Entering the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Garden</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gethsemane</span></st1:placename></st1:place></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One can only walk around the perineter of the small Garden of Gethsemane.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I found it
magical being at the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gethsemane</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Church</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of the Sanctuary</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> because of its beauty, its stunning
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We returned to see
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Directly across the street was the <b>Tomb of the Virgin Mary</b> which we visited next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Between the </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of Olives and the Old City high atop a
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a few minutes, I noticed them again, this time carrying huge sacks on their
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veteran Palestinians and newly ensconced Jewish settlers is not unknown. We
walked along the street bordering the neighborhood for a bit and I must admit
to our feeling a bit tense since we were the only foreigners about and we had
been warned by the State Dept. a few days earlier to stay clear of that same
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: center;">Entering the Old City via Dung Gate brought us directly into Western Wall Plaza that we've been to a few times already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A new bride
having her photo taken in the alleys of the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A special day
indeed starting at the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount of Olives</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, seeing fabulous churches, the Gardens at </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gethsemane</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, row upon row of graves at the Jewish
cemetery, the Tomb of the Virgin Mary, strolling through Kings’ Valley to the
City of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">David</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and finally returning to the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> through Dung Gate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-22495222885620597962014-10-31T14:11:00.000-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.750-06:0010/25: Desert Waterfalls & Floating in the Dead Sea<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">On Saturday,
10/25, Steven and I were up early for our 7am departure from the hostel for a
day trip to </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Masada</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">En Gedi Nature Reserve</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead
Sea</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Alon, our driver/guide, told us he had grown up in the Ultra Orthodox
religion as the son of South African parents, married and had children but ‘had
given all that up five years ago when he left the religion and had become a
writer, photographer and driver.’ The other 7 passengers likewise were as curious
as I wondering what had caused him to break away from his former life but none
of us felt comfortable asking. I didn’t take any pictures of him but think of
an unhappy looking, short Art Garfinkel and you get a sense of what Alon looked
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">He did explain
that </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is 800m above sea level and the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, which we’d see first but stop at last,
is 400 m below sea level and the lowest place on earth. Leaving the hustle and
bustle of the packed city and the areas around </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Olives</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Scopus</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> behind us, we entered just minutes later
what Alon referred to as the Time Tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel
through a mountain, all we could see was a rocky, barren, desert landscape – now we all understood what Alon
meant when he talked about the <b>Time Tunnel.</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alon gave us an
abbreviated history, geography and political lesson about </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as we drove south explaining that the
geo-political term ‘</span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">West
Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’ means the
west side of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan
River</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and that
the border between the 2 nations is in the middle of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Twenty years ago, the Israeli government
divided the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">West
Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> into Zone,
A, B and C to ‘keep things quiet,’ Alon explained. <b>Zone A</b> includes the
cities of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bethlehem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jericho</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Ramallah and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hebron</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, all communities controlled by the Palestinians
and which Israelis are unable to enter. <b>Zone C</b> is the area controlled by
</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> whereas <b>Zone B’s</b> areas are more
shared communities, he stated. There are hundreds of thousands of Arab Israelis
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and they can freely go from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to anyplace in the West Bank because they
have </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> citizenship. However, the Palestinians
living in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">West
Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> need a much
coveted and difficult to acquire permit to enter </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Alon told us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The desert we went through for almost the entire day wass the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Judean</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Desert</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. On the side of the highway we saw tents
and huts belonging to the Bedouins, a tribe of Arabs, who continue living the
traditional way of life. Saw out the window the Quemeran Mtns, (sp?) where the Dead Sea
Scrolls which we’d seen just the day before had been discovered by a Bedouin
boy back in 1947.</span><br />
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<i style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: start;">(As I’m writing this, it's Tuesday, 10/28 and we’re on the bus from Jerusalem driving to Eilat in southern Israel to cross over to Jordan and passing the exact same sights we were on 3 days ago that I’m telling you about - just a bit uncanny. We’re at the checkpoint crossing into the West Bank and 2 Israeli guards toting Uzis, looking no more than 19, came on and walked down the aisle giving each of us ‘the look’ but asked no questions.)</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ninety minutes after leaving </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> we reached </span><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Masada</span></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, a large fortress built by King Herod atop a mountain overlooking the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and one of the most popular tourist sights in the entire country. We hiked for about 45 minutes up the mountain on the windy, rocky Snake Path with Ava, a woman from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Boston</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> while the other tour passengers took the 3 minute cable car to the summit. She and Steven hiked down while I spent the limited time we had been allotted by Alon touring the fortress for as long as possible before taking the cable car down. In addition, my knees were still in pretty rough shape from my fall weeks ago in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the thought of walking down did not sound like the smartest of decisions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Masada</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, summertime temperatures reach a sweltering 45-47 degrees Celsius compared to ‘only’ 20-25 degrees in the winter. The problem for tourists during the summer at </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Masada</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is that nighttime temperatures don’t cool down at all, Alon stated. The authorities often have to close the hiking trail up the mountain because of the possibility of heat stroke, even for the wildly popular sunrise hike which means leaving </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at the ungodly hour of </span><st1:time hour="3" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">After we left Masada, we </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">drove back north toward</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">En Gedi</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b> Nature Preserve</b> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">which translates into Ibex Spring. On the way we passed a kibbutz (above) that Alon explained is home to 500 people </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and where there’s a small hotel. It’s in the middle of nowhere with nothing but rocks and barren landscape for as far as the eye can see and quite frankly would be one of the last places I’d ever want to stay. Each to their own, I guess, right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Arriving at the beautiful <b>En Gedi</b> where we had just 90 minutes to explore was like entering an altogether different world: an oasis of green with lush palm trees providing much needed shade, a number of waterfalls to walk to and explore and dip our feet in. But having such a limited time to explore this paradise was a bummer. We felt pretty rushed as we hiked along the trails and gazed longingly at the pools that were PACKED with young teens who were having a blast on a gorgeous hot and sunny day. We had hoped to catch a glimpse of the ibex, a type of goat I’ve only seen in zoos, while hiking but I guess the crowds scared them all off! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Half an hour
after leaving paradise, we arrived at our day’s final stop, the </span><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, where we had another 90 minutes to cover
ourselves with the famous </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> black mud before floating in the water that in Hebrew is aptly
called the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sea</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Salt</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. People come from all over the world to enjoy the healing
properties of the Sea which is comprised of 33% salt and lots of minerals and
oils. Alon warned us to avoid getting the water in our mouth, eyes and nose and
that any open cuts would burn and sting for a bit. Steven and I both
experienced the latter but the strange thing was that a brand new abrasion I
had on my arm had formed like a scab within minutes in the water – just
incredible. We had so much fun slathering mud on ourselves that we picked up
from the water’s bottom along with a number of almost translucent salt crystals
that I stuffed in my swimsuit so I wouldn’t lose track of them between the
water and the changing area. Alon explained later that salt is the cheapest
thing to buy in an Israeli supermarket costing just 1.5 shekels for a kilo,
about .28!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A view of the beautiful Dead Sea from the van.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">The </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> had been one continuous sea but the southern side has largely dried up resulting in a huge swath of dried ground and the Sea looking like 2 separate seas. The </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> is drying up so quickly that as the sea recedes, huge sink holes have developed making it very dangerous to enter and to swim in certain areas, Alon told us. He indicated that the water level has dropped a staggering 75 feet and that experts fear that the Sea could cease to exist altogether unless drastic measures are taken. The problem in short is that the area only receives about 2-4 inches of rain in the winter but there has been very less rain the last few years. Combine that with increased manufacturing and other factors and you can see why the long term prognosis of the Sea is in peril especially when also factoring in widely divergent political interests.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the many sink holes that have become more common as the Dead Sea recedes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We've seen Dead Sea products available all over Israel as the black mud especially is a very popular souvenir. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">On the way back to the hostel, Alon told us</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that the signs of vegetation in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> area, including the number of small shrubs etc were a sign of the many underground springs. The soil is also very salty which makes it tough to grow much. We did pass huge numbers of greenhouses where Alon said tomatoes, peppers and watermelons are grown. </span><br />
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hour’s drive from our home. She came to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for 3 weeks with an organization called <b>Volunteers
for</b> <b>Israel</b> to work on a military base doing whatever she and her
fellow volunteers from around the world are told needs doing. How incredibly
selfless for her, a non Jew, to come all this way to help the Israelis; this is
her 2<sup>nd</sup> trip and she’s planning to volunteer again, she said. Steven
and I were so thrilled that Jerre Ann was our roommate for 3 of the nights we
had a 4 bed dorm room at the Abraham Hostel. We have blotted out the two older
male American bunkmates we had the first 2 nights who had great fun imbibing
massive amounts of alcohol and then coming back to our room disturbing us
around </span><st1:time hour="4" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
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the bus from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> down to the southernmost Israeli city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Eilat</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> today and immediately crossed over into </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at the city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aqaba</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where we’re staying the night. I had
hoped that I would be able to post at least one entry tonight, but
unfortunately the hotel’s wifi is very slow so I’m not able to post anything
with pictures. Since we’re leaving in
the morning to spend a couple of days in the Jordanian desert, we’ll be without
such ‘necessities’ as wifi and computer hookups – oh my, oh my! Thus no
opportunity to update the blog until at least the 31<sup>st</sup> when we reach
our next destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Til then, a happy and safe Halloween to each of you. With love from </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aqaba</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-90717875298310103092014-10-27T14:15:00.001-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.775-06:0010/24 The Horrors of War & a Photo Essay<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">On Friday
morning, the 24th, we took the bus over to <b>Yad Veshem</b> wanting to get there at a
reasonable hour before it closed at 2 for the Jewish Sabbath. The experience of
the Holocaust is so deeply seared into the national Jewish psyche that
understanding it goes a long way toward understanding Israelis themselves. The
institution of Yad Vashem, created in 1953 by an act of the Knesset (</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s Parliament), was responsible for
preserving a record of those times. The name Yad Veshem translates to ‘a
memorial and a name or memory’ and comes from the biblical book of Isaiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This sweet man at
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">We walked fairly quickly through the </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Holcaust History Museum</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">, a well lit, 200 yard long triangular concrete prism which is the centerpiece of the site because, as readers of the blog know, we’ve stopped at Holocaust Museums in every city along this trip. After a while, it gets very difficult to absorb more of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators against the Jews, Roma and other persecuted people during WWII.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two ‘things’ really made an impact on me in the History Museum (below) that were different from what we’d seen before. As no pictures were allowed in the Museum, I wrote them down. One was a poem you may be familiar with written by Martin Nemoller, a German pastor:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">An Anti-Semitic game called ‘Out with the Jews’ also struck a raw nerve for me. In the game, the players follow paths that cross Jewish businesses. A player who lands on them wins a figurine wearing a 'Jewish hat.' The winner is the first player to bring 6 such figurines to the 'assembly point' depicted by a man, woman and child with the caption 'Out to Palestine.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A panorama of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Just like </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to the north, everything in the city is
constructed of limestone; there is no wood, no color other than the lovely
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the 9 underground galleries in the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: center;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">History</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">, we walked to the Yad Veshem’s many memorials
on its 45 acre site. Even though we’d earlier seen masses of tour buses, it
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Approximately 1.5
million Jews fought against the Nazis, as Allied soldiers in the resistance
movement and in the ghettoes during WWII. The </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Monument to the Jewish
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">There’s such an absence
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <b>Hall of Remembrance</b> is an imposing, tent-like basalt structure that allows people to pay their respects to the memories of those who were murdered. On the floor are the names of 22 Nazi murder sites from among the hundreds of extermination, concentration and transit camps. A memorial flame burns constantly next to a crypt containing ashes of victims brought to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> from the extermination camps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Pillar of
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <b>Children’s
Memorial</b>, hollowed out from an underground cavern, is a tribute to the
approximately 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed during the Holocaust.
As we walked through the memorial, a single pitch black room lit by 5 candles
infinitely reflected in 500 mirrors, we heard a
recording of names of murdered children, their ages and countries of origin.
I found it very unnerving to walk in the room because it was so dark and
thought the memorial very stark and frankly disappointing compared to the
profoundly touching and emotional Children’s Memorial in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warsaw</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Photo of a boy
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<st1:street><st1:address><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">James Korczak Square</span></b></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is a tribute to a Polish-Jewish teacher
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Avenue of the
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Trees have been planted around the Yad Veshem site in honor of the non Jews who
risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Hey, Polish girl, this
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warsaw Ghetto
Square</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> consists of 2
sculptures (one the leader of the Uprising and the other depicting the mass
deportation of the Jews to the death camps) set in a wall of red bricks which
symbolize the ghetto walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The<b> Cattle Car
– Memorial to the Deportees </b>was established as a monument to the millions
of Jews herded onto cattle cars and transported from all over </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to the extermination camps. This car was
given to Yad Veshem by the Polish government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our final stop
was </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Partisans’ Panorama </b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">which pays tribute to the Jewish fighters who
joined the partisans during the Holocaust. The sculptor chose the tree as a
symbol of the partisan fighter whose life depended on the forest and its trees
as a place to hide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After leaving Yad
Veshem, we returned to the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> by way of the </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Damascus</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Gate.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> There was, as you can see, a HUGE police presence in that
immediate vicinity. It was all a tad unnerving so we asked a police officer if
he considered it safe for us to enter through the Damascus Gate. He gave us the
all clear so we proceeded while being more cautious and aware of our
surroundings than ‘normal’ in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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day that the police presence was probably so strong because Muslims were
exiting from their holiest day of the
week at the same time Shabbat, or the Jewish Sabbath, the holiest day of the
week for Jews, was beginning so the police were there in force in case of any
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had forgotten to mention in one of my earlier posts from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> that the 5000 year old city’s name actually translates to ‘City of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Peace</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> which is a little ironic considering that no other city in the world has been fought over as much, having been conquered 33 times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Entering the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> had a totally different feel than through
the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jaffa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Gate we’d been through so many times. I
loved seeing and feeling the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> from a new perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A photo essay
follows of the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were the only foreigners entering the Old City at this time.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Arabs sure love
their sweets judging from the number of candy shops in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As we walked
past, these 2 girls said hello to us and asked us our names and said theirs
were Angela and Jessica!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We finally knew
once and for all we were in the Christian Quarter because so many of the homes
had crosses on their doors and one said ‘God Blees our Home.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We’ve seen men
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merchants in the bazaars or markets but this was the first time I was able to
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Photo of </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Amer </b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(pronounced
Amir), a shopkeeper in the Christian Quarter I bought some items from at the
end of the day on Friday. Steven had just bought a falafel which he was eating
while I was looking in the shop. Amir kindly gave Steven, whom he kept calling
Brother as do all the other shopkeepers, a can of pop, lots of napkins and a
chair to sit on – very astute businessman!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Walking back from
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holiest night for Jews, is like walking through a ghost town. Essentially the entire
city shuts down about 5 on Fridays, i.e. all stores, restaurants, the city’s
transportation system, etc only to reopen up again about 7ish on Saturday night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> We got up bright
and early so we could see the Dome of the Rock before making it for our </span><st1:time hour="9" minute="0" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">9am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> tour of the Western Wall Tunnel. We took the tram down Jaffa St to the gate of
the same name, then walked through the Christian Qtr and over to the Western
Wall and finally to the <b>Dome of the Rock</b>, accessible from the same huge open
air plaza. The dome dominates the vast 35 acre </span><st1:place style="text-align: left;"><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></b></st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">, which is known to Muslims as <b>Haram
esh-Sharif</b> or the Noble Sanctuary.</span></div>
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<st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> opens daily at </span><st1:time hour="19" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">7:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> but there was already a long line of
people waiting to get in. Everyone needs to go through pretty strict security. Steven
and I had remembered our walking tour guide’s instructions to wear long pants,
not wear or bring any Jewish or Christian items and for me also to cover my
head and arms before leaving the hostel. Once having gone through security, we
entered an almost completely covered pedestrian wooden passage that ascended
from the plaza up to </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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octagonal building of the Dome on the Rock was completed in 691 AD and
enshrines the great rock from which the prophet Muhammad is said to have risen
to heaven. It felt like there were very few people at that early hour even
though there had been a long line of people waiting to enter so it was
fantastic being able to wander through the huge area without masses of people
everywhere.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A view of the Wall from a different perspective: from the wooden enclosure en route to Temple Mt.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I loved the early hour to take photos.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was so early that there were hardly any people praying here when we arrived. that changes and hour or so later when we were leaving.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Anna and her
brand new husband, Nichola, were staying at our hostel and we met them while
waiting in line. Anna hadn’t known she needed a scarf so I lent her an extra
one I had with me. Hint: more on them later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">While waiting for
Steven to change into shorts in the Wall plaza before our 9am Western Wall Tunnel Tour, I was mesmerized watching this
group of people when they spontaneously began singing and dancing the <b>Hava Nagila</b>
song with great gusto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had reserved
months ago tickets for the <b>Western Wall Tunnel Tour</b> which we did right
after leaving Temple Mount and Steven had changed into shorts. Our guide this
time was Dave, originally from </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Edmonton</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alberta</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, who explained that the tunnels
underneath the Wall are still being excavated and that the original city was
built outside the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> by Herodotus. Dave stated that the
Western Wall is so famous because it’s the closest remnant to what had been the
holiest part of </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. What everyone sees at the Wall is only 51m
long but when we took the tunnel tour, we walked along its entire length.
Historians and archeologists discovered the massive wall revealed 2 building
stones estimated to weigh an incredible <b>400 tons and 570 tons</b>
respectively!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have tried
at least a dozen times to post the following photos with the relevant captions but have
been unable to so here they are all at once. I hope you can figure what goes
where!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We enjoyed seeing
the Wall from a whole new perspective and didn’t mind too much walking through
the very narrow passageways on stones thousands of years old.</span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warren</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s passageway, named after one of the excavators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tunnel is not
simply a place for tourists or for archeologists still unearthing the mysteries
beneath the Wall; it’s an area still much visited by rabbis and the faithful as
we saw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Women’s prayer
area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">After leaving the Tunnels, we then walked over to the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">King</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">David</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hotel</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> we’d both read about so much in fiction books. How glorious to sit ourselves down in the lap of luxury for a while and fantasize about staying in a $700 a night room compared to our paltry $50 a night in a 4 bed mixed dorm!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: center;">Interesting reading who’s stayed at the hotel over the years: a veritable who’s who of politicians, singers and actors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Walked across the street to the Y as I’d read the panoramic views of the city from its bell tower are stupendous. Decided to leave those to our imagination though after discovering the price had quadrupled in the last month from 5NIS to 20 </span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: center;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NIS</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">, i.e. from about $1.50 to $6 each.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">What a noble ideal to strive for.</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We headed next to
the <b>Israel Museum </b>which is the largest cultural institution in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and houses collections of works dating
from prehistory to the present day in Archeology, the Fine Arts and Jewish Art
and Life. Since opening in 1965, the museum has amassed a collection of nearly
500,000 objects, the most famous of which are the Dead Sea Scrolls housed in a
separate building called the Shrine of the Book. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our initial focus
had certainly been to view the latter but we were drawn in by so many other
superb exhibits before seeing the Scrolls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Intriguing seeing
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Marriage contracts</span><br />
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had no more camera batteries left to take photos of the beautifully restored
synagogues that have also been saved from </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">, </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Suriname</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> and </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Italy</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Likewise no
photos of the breathtakingly beautiful ‘micro mosaics’ done in the 18</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
C. by Roman artisans of still life, landscapes and portraits. Perhaps you can
find examples of them online and see for yourselves how much they look like paintings
and not jigsaw puzzles made up of thousands of miniscule tiles.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This was the only
photo I was able to take of the <b>Dead Sea Scrolls</b> located in their own building called <b>The Shrine of the Book</b>. A
Bedouin boy discovered the 1<sup>st</sup> of the Scrolls in 1947 in a Judean
desert cave overlooking the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. (We saw that exact area the next day when we took a tour of </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Masada</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dead Sea</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and Ein Gedi but I’m getting ahead of
myself.) All in all, nine main scrolls and bags full of small fragments
surfaced over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As you can see from
the photos I was able to eke out of the camera, Steven and I had a blast taking
pictures of ourselves in front of this mirrored ...?</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">I guess we are
just really kids at heart or like to pretend we are at least.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Back at our
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the lobby
area, we saw again Anna and Nichola whom we had seen first thing in the morning
at </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. She’s a psychologist from </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Serbia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and he’s a photojournalist from </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Croatia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> yet they managed to meet and fall in love
in the middle of the war between their nations. They’re newlyweds on their
honeymoon from </span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Belgrade</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Nichola explained that Anna had planned their entire
wedding while he took sole responsibility for planning their honeymoon. Anna had
no idea until a few hours before they got on the plane where in the world they’d be going, Nichola related
with a chuckle! I hope our paths will cross again in Colorado one day.</span></div>
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-20619094885056816202014-10-26T12:18:00.002-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.740-06:00More Time in Special Places<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As promised in my
last post about the walking tour, here are some more photos from places we went
back to in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We knew we were
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of the most
remarkable things about the gorgeous church is that it is shared, albeit
unequally and uncomfortably, by six Christian denominations. Unfortunately even
though there are Status Quo treaties dating from 1852 for the administration of
the church, there are huge disagreements among the groups that have literally
resulted in priests coming to blows with each other - how very sad. Since 1187,
the same 2 Muslim families have had the honor of opening and closing the church
as no one else could agree when it should be done. In 1935, wooden
reinforcements had to be used to keep the church standing because no agreement
could be reached regarding reconstruction.</span><br />
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of Unction</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">; it was where the Holy Family and His followers brought Jesus’
body down from the cross, anointed it with oil and wrapped His body in a
shroud. We saw pilgrims wiping the stone with handkerchiefs and other materials
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fair warning: you
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">The Greeks have the prime real estate in the church: to the right of their chapel is the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">XIIth Station</b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">where Jesus was crucified.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: start;"> There was a huge line of people waiting in front of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: start;"> </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: start;">XIVth Station</b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px; text-align: start;">or the Holy Sepulchre itself; it was the marble structure in the main room where Jesus was buried and from which he was resurrected. I am certainly not as religious as I was but I am so glad we spent a fair amount of time to visit such an important church for Christians. It was profoundly moving seeing so many other people, including a lot of priests, be so touched and affected by what they were experiencing.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After leaving the
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Next, we returned
to the Western Wall; t</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">he Wall precinct
functions under the aegis of the rabbinic authorities with all the trappings of
an Orthodox synagogue. Modest dress is required (men must cover their heads in
the prayer area), there is segregation of men and women in prayer and smoking
and photography on the Sabbath and religious holidays are prohibited. We also
had to go through a security check before entering the area.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As you might
expect, security is very tight in the whole Wall area with young gun toting
soldiers visible throughout. It becomes ‘normal’ very quickly even for a new
visitor to the country to accept the status quo and not become bothered by the constant
police presence wherever you are in the city. I have no concept of what it must
be like to live, as opposed to visit a country, where the threat of violence is
fairly constant and what that must do to a person’s psyche. While we’ve been
here for almost a week, we’ve received emails from the US State Dept. warning
of threats in certain areas of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for example and indeed there has been at
least one child killed in a ‘terrorist’ attack in the city. The key is
exercising ‘situational awareness.’ Now that’s a term I look forward to
forgetting once we leave this neck of the woods.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is where we had been standing hours earlier with our walking tour and had taken pictures of the Wall.</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Notes in the
Wall:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I’m sure you’ve all
heard or read that the cracks between the Wall’s massive stones are stuffed
with slips of paper bearing prayers and petitions. It has been said with a
mixture of serious faith and light cynicism that they reach their destination
more quickly than the Israeli postal service! The cracks are cleaned several
times a year but the slips are never simply dumped. Since they often contain
God’s name and are written from the heart, the slips are collected in a sack
and are buried with reverence in a Jewish cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We'd been out for long enoug so we headed back toward
the hostel but stopped first at the always vibrant and exciting <b>Machaneh
Yehuda Market</b> very close by. One block long alley is covered but there’s
also a parallel wider pedestrian street, both of which sell a huge selection of
fruit, vegetables, cheeses, every imaginable type of candy, plus scads of breads
and pastries, etc. I’ve not yet seen one bagel though anywhere in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> much to my surprise. I never thought they
were an American invention! We’ve been back there several times since and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Natalie: Thought of you, hon, seeing this bowl of beautifully colored 'saffron.'</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CW2sH9y6KZkgZAVFT4ohtJBfhiFAaPJkxXiTsTTo0vm75mnUEMGY4vTO07VRB5n94JBW0DuHI6F00rqPqROZPBhPQkDv0gTT2UrhsuWRvIbRY_aS7mrDQh0d_Z5zpDC7Qw5WTuvp8g4/s1600/IMG_0114.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CW2sH9y6KZkgZAVFT4ohtJBfhiFAaPJkxXiTsTTo0vm75mnUEMGY4vTO07VRB5n94JBW0DuHI6F00rqPqROZPBhPQkDv0gTT2UrhsuWRvIbRY_aS7mrDQh0d_Z5zpDC7Qw5WTuvp8g4/s1600/IMG_0114.JPG" height="640" width="480" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">While working on
the blog late on the 22<sup>nd</sup> in the hostel’s lounge area, I began
chatting with <b>Emi</b>, a 21year old from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Montreal</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> who graduated in law from the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ottawa</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, my alma mater. This young woman should
be appointed as Canada’s Goodwill ambassador: she’s quadrilingual, has been
traveling for a month alone in Egypt often staying with locals along the way,
is more informed about world events and geography than most people twice or
three times, studied abroad in Germany when she was only 15. Emi has seen much
of the world already by herself and has a list of what places she wants to
travel to next. It was quite amusing over the course of a few days seeing men in
their late 20’s from several different countries almost swoon over the
captivating Emi!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-21586766190378085642014-10-25T23:46:00.002-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.746-06:00'Getting our Feet Wet' in Jerusalem on 10/22<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Since we're spending a full week in Jerusalem, we decided to
take a ‘free’ 2 hour walking tour of Jerusalem’s Old City so we could get our feet wet, i.e. getting a much needed overview of the city. We’d heard
about the tour from the Abraham Hostel where we’re staying in a 4 bed dorm – oh glory
be! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Walking down </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jaffa St</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, which is only open to a tram, from our
hostel: certainly a more visible police presence than in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. None of the men and women toting guns
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Our guide </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">pointed out the sign written in Turkish at the entrance and said the Turks switched to Latin writing in 1928; sure hadn’t known that even with all of our time in Turkey! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We met Michael, our guide originally from Texas and Wisconsin but living in Israel for the last 14 years, at Jaffa Gate one of 7 gates to the Old City and the entrance to the </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Christian Quarter</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Michael said that there’s only 1 Protestant Church in the quarter and that’s a Lutheran one because the oldest Christian denominations in the world took up residence in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, i.e. well before the Lutherans came along and there was no space for others. In the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the Roman Catholic Church is called the Latin Church and the Patriarch is the head of the church in the whole </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Holy Land</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> plus </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jordan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where the current Patriarch is from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">The whole Christian Qtr. is built around the </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">, one of the world’s oldest churches and the holiest place on earth for Christians. Women’s elbows and knees on the tour were required to be covered before going in the church. As you can imagine the small courtyard was almost entirely filled with people every time we passed by. People wait in line as long as 6 hours to enter the tomb, our guide said. </span><br />
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Qtr.</b> is the largest in area and also population with about 22,000 of the
30,000 residents in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. It’s considered to be the most
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old AND with the same families. Walking through the Muslim Qtr, you get a sense
of what life was like years ago. Interestingly, the most visited sites in the
Muslim Qtr. are the Christian sites because half of The Stations of the Cross
wend their way through the quarter on the Via Dolorosa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The 2<sup>nd</sup> smallest quarter is the <b>Jewish Qtr.</b> which is very new, modern and has western looking buildings, all in the same cream colored limestone we saw in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our next stop was
seeing the <b>Western Wall</b> from high above on the city's rooftops. The status of the Wall as
the most powerful existing Jewish shrine derives from its connection with the
ancient </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the House of God. The 2,000 year old
Wall was not itself part of the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> edifice but of the massive retaining wall
King Herod built to create the vast plaza now known as the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mount</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Jewish visitors often refer to it as
simply ‘the Wall’ but the term </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘Wailing Wall,’ Michael
explained, is a Gentile term describing the sight of devout Jews grieving for
God’s House. It was very moving viewing it for the first time after only seeing
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The snake like
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">From our perch above the city we could see the magnificent golden </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Dome of the Rock </b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">and the black domed </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Al Asqa Mosque. </b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">We were informed by Michael that when we toured those areas later, women again needed to be</span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">covered from the top of the head down to our ankles including elbows, athat both men and women were required to show passports at the security checkpoint and furthermore no Christian or Jewish religious objects could be worn or carried even in purses, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our tour continued on </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s rooftops</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> which Michael explained were flat so locals over the centuries could walk from the South (the Jewish and Armenian quarters) to the North (the Christian and Muslim quarters) sides of the city.</span><br />
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N<span style="font-size: 14pt;">ext up was the <b>Armenian Qtr</b>., the smallest quarter with only 700 residents; apparently most of the Armenians have moved out to the New City because they wanted bigger and more modern apartments that would fit the big TV’s and large scale furniture, Michael explained. They still retain ownership of their homes in the quarter though. When we looked at the exterior of the homes, it was clear why Michael had said the Armenians had moved out: all the utilities are located on the outside of the homes so trying to retrofit homes this old to accommodate 21<sup>st</sup> C. technology was impossible. Don’t know why that wouldn’t also hold true for the other residents of the city and not just the Armenians though. As Michael asked, ‘What’s up with the Armenians being in this area of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">?’ The most simplistic answer is that they had a very tight relationship with the Crusaders in 1099 and were given the best location in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. I didn’t know that the Armenians were the first Christian nation on earth.</span><br />
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begun. It was too long a tour, we thought, but Michael was interesting,
informative and able to answer any question about his adopted city thrown at
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-39954304085571795212014-10-24T15:12:00.001-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.760-06:0010/21: Nazareth & The Sea of Galilee<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Several weeks ago in Plovdia,
Bulgaria, we’d been so lucky meeting and having a wonderful time spending much
of the day with 2 Israelis,<b> Noam and Dalia</b>, who said they’d be thrilled
showing us some of their favorite sights north of Haifa when we were in town.
After a flurry of emails and then phone calls back and forth, Dalia volunteered
Noam to pick us up at the haifa Guesthouse which was a considerable hike from his
home in <b>Afula</b>. After stopping to get Dalia from her home in <b>Kiriat
Tivon</b>, they drove us to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Nazareth</b></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
where we visited some amazing Christian sites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
first stop was the <b>Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation</b> located in a
lovely square that's all lit up during the Christmas season, Noam said.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Entering the courtyard we were struck by the spectacular gifts from so many countries all over the world to the church.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gloria: this one's for you!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our next was the
<b>Basilica of the Annunciation</b> that was packed with tourists and pilgrims; many
of the latter were either priests walking alone but often priests
accompanied by who appeared to be their parishioners. It was awe inspiring as a
cradle Catholic being able to see first hand the church and visualize what
happened so long ago right where we walked.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The air was thickened by the amount and scent of the incense how very intoxicating in that environment.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Canada's gift to the church was in wood - the only non mosaic that I saw.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Immediately upon leaving the gorgeous
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dalia and I had a blast
shopping in the Arab souk in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Nazareth</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> while Steven and Noam went back to get the car and
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Noam pointed out to us the<b> </b></span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Golan Heights</b></span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> (in the foreground behind the Sea of Galilee) which </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. Behind the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Golan Heights</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Syria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, Noam explained. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Jordan, which we’ll be visiting in a week, is on othe right hand side in the photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Later, he next kindly stopped
again on the outskirts of the town of </span><st1:city><st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Kinneret</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> so we could see and could have touched the River
Jordan where so many people come to be baptized. It was amazing watching
canoeists pass us from its muddy banks after hearing from my earliest Catholic
religious education classes of all these sights we were truly blessed to have
seen with Noam and Dalia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Noam and Dalia drove for more than a hour trying to take us to some of their favorite
beaches on the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sea of Galilee</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> so we could all go swimming. We stopped at several
places but they all looked very rocky and had signs up saying NO Swimming so
finally gave up on that idea and instead headed to a kibbutz resort where we
walked around and enjoyed ourselves in the waning afternoon sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Noam drove us back to his
lovely home on a large farm where he grew olive trees as well as my all time
favorites, dates. I felt so utterly clueless when he showed me the dates
growing on one of his date palm trees. He said one of his trees bears about
100 kilos of dates a year – what heaven. I had never thought of how they grew
before very dried ones magically appeared on the shelves in my local grocery
stores to be brought home and baked into Date Squares or Date Bread. Noam’s
dates were so soft they almost melted in my mouth. I could have eaten them until
the cows came home but I tried to exercise some restraint!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After some tea and a light
dinner, they drove us to the bus station where we said our sad goodbyes hoping
to meet again another day. What an incredible introduction Noam and Dalia gave us to their lovely homeland. I can't begin to say what another lovely day we had with them. We got the </span><st1:time hour="19" minute="10"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">7:10</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
bus for the 90 minute ride south to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> where we’re spending a week in a 4 bed mixed dorm at
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-87489346414884212752014-10-24T12:36:00.000-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.772-06:00Haifa's World Class Baha'i Gardens <div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As I write this post,
Steven and I are in our dorm room at the Abraham Hostel in Jerusalem about 7ish
on Friday night, i.e. the holiest night for Jews, listening to a an ever
increasing crowd of male Orthodox Jews dancing and singing Israeli songs at the
top of their lungs right outside our window. They're attracting a crowd of onlookers who are now clapping They started at sundown and show no signs of stopping anytime soon which is fine by me. I just LOVE these trips! </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Annie on
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In my last post, I mentioned that this one would be devoted exclusively to Haifa's showpiece, its <b>Baha'i Gardens</b> which we vistited on the 20th. They're</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> located on Mt Carmel, a holy site for Jews, Christians,
Muslims and of course the Baha'i, the world’s youngest religion. We had an
Israeli Jewish guide for the 45 minute tour; when I asked him why there wasn’t
a Baha'i guide, he said that their religion forbade any proselytizing and that
conducting tours would be considered a form of that. The city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Akko</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, which we saw just across the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mediterranean</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, is the holiest site for Baha'i followers and the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Baha'i</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Gardens</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the Shrine are also considered holy sites. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our guide explained that there are 5-6 million Baha'i's in 200 countries and that the Gardens were completed in 2001 at a cost of $250 million dollars and cost from $2-3 million in annual upkeep.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The most striking feature of
the gardens that form the centerpiece of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the <b>Shrine of the Bab</b> whose brilliantly gilded
dome dominates and illuminates the city’s skyline. The building, made of
Italian stone and rising to a height of 128 feet, glistens with 12,000 gilded
tiles imported from the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Netherlands</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Non Baha’i’s are not allowed to enter the shrine
which is the mausoleum for the Bab, the founder, who was martyred by Persian
authorities. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the world center for the Baha’i faith which was
founded in the 19<sup>th</sup> C. in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and holds as its central belief the unity of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Until our guide explained, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I never knew that every Baha'i has to make a pilgrimage once during his or her lifetime to the religious sights in the city of </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Akko</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the Shrine at the Baha'i Gardens </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The pilgrimage consists of walking up the 1040 steps to the top to gain ‘spiritual elevation,’ stopping en route to get in the proper frame of mind through prayer and meditation. Once at the top, our guide explained, the Baha'i's then turn around and descend to the bottom to complete that part of the pilgrimage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">That’s the city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Akko</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> across the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mediterranean</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The gardens, one of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s 11 UNESCO World Heritage sites, are comprised of 19 stunningly landscaped circular terraces that extend for ½ mile down the hillside. The terraces are a harmony of color and form with pale pink and gray stone flights of stairs and carved urns overflowing with red geraniums which are a perfect contrast to the emerald green grass and floral borders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">When you walk down the incredibly steep terraces, you can’t help but think how the grass ever gets mowed. So I asked the guide who explained it takes 3 people working in tandem to mow the terraces: 1 person mowing, 1 person holding a rope to the lawnmower and the last person holding a rope to the person mowing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Baha’i World Justice
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">There are no religious
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tour ended with a lovely
view of the Shrine which was still only in the middle of the terraces but
everyone had to exit the Gardens at this point. I loved seeing the fantastic
cactus garden at the end of the tour; it brought back memories of our visiting
the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sonora</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Desert</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> outside of </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tucson</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
</span><st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Arizona</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, the only other place I’ve seen so many other varieties
of cacti. If you ever forgot so much of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> was a desert, the garden reminded you of that fact
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I dedicate this post to Bob
and Marti in our hometown of </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Littleton</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Colorado</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> who inspired us to visit </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. I hope I have done your </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">your faith and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">beloved Baha’i Gardens justice in my descriptions and photos. Please feel free, Marti, to
post any corrections as you see fit. Annie</span></i></div>
Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-44312211834234582652014-10-23T14:50:00.002-06:002016-09-18T08:13:37.763-06:00Haifa's Carmelite Monastery, Souks & Limestone Blocks <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sunday, October 19th, was a
long travel day as we got the </span><st1:time hour="8" minute="0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">8am</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
shuttle from our hotel in Goreme to the airport in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Kayseri</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, about an hour east. The airport had so few flights
that everyone on the shuttle was all catching the same Pegasus Airlines flight
to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">! It was a bit nerve wracking when we were told at the airport that
we didn’t have seats on the connecting flight from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to Tel Aviv even though I had checked us in online the night before. Got that worked
out and we were on our way to Tel Aviv, the only international airport in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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the US State Department a couple of days earlier indicating pockets of
significant unrest in Jerusalem and warning us to stay away from some of the
city’s most popular tourist sights. It was surprising therefore to experience
the most cursory of questions at immigration and see and sense an almost zero
police presence in the Tel Aviv airport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With some help from an
employee at the ticket kiosk, we were able to get on the right train right at
the airport for the 90 minute trip north to the city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. We were easily able to catch a local bus to near the
Haifa Guesthouse, our ‘home’ for the next 2 nights. We had started our trip to
Israel in Haifa because back home we deliver hot lunches as part of the Meals
on Wheels program every Tuesday to about 12 individuals and/or couples; among
them are a lovely couple, Bob and Marti, who are followers of the Baha'i
religion whose world headquarters and gardens are in Haifa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Guesthouse was located
almost at the foot of the Baha'i shrine which was beautifully lit up at night. Since it had been a long travel day,</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> it was great to grab a pizza from across the street and eat it sitting
in bed watching CNN and an American football game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Since we'd come to Haifa only to visit the Baha'i Gardens and knew we needed to be there waiting in line no later than 11:30 for the English language noon tour, we were up and out to see some other Haifa sights by 9. It was quite an adventure trying to find our way to
<b>Elijah’s Cave</b> and <b>Stella Maris</b>, the Carmelite Monastery, using public
transportation. That was much easier said than done as Israel is the first
country this trip that has fairly little in the way of English signs or signs
in Latin script anywhere. The buses, the stops, signs on tourist sights, for
example, only had Hebrew writing, Steven, having lived on a kibbutz for 1 year
in the far north of Israel back in 1969, could still remember some of the
Hebrew letters so that was an enormous help as otherwise we’d have been sunk!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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C. We didn’t actually see the cave but
rather a fairly large room that was divided in half by a fairly tall bookcase
so that women could pray on the left hand side and men on the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Tried to tour next the nearby
</span><st1:place style="text-align: center;"><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Museum</span></b></st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Clandestine Immigration</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> which contained the tiny ship which Jewish immigrants used to evade the British Government's </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">blockade in 1948, the
year before the State of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was declared. Unfortunately, the museum was closed
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zachary: These photos are for you!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After taking the wrong bus a couple of times but luckily being able to use the same tickets because they were valid for one hour regardless of direction, we finally got to the world headquarters of the Carmelites, also known as <b>Stella Maris.</b> The church is located at the top of </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Carmel</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (which took me back to my elementary school and church of almost the same name, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel), so it had spectacular views of the entire city. The site was selected in the 12<sup>th</sup> C, by a small band of crusaders who settled there to devote themselves to asceticism, solitude and prayer. The Carmelite order, which grew from that beginning, was officially founded in the 13<sup>th</sup> C. and the church was built in the 18<sup>th</sup> C. over a grotto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We toured the spectacular Baha'i Gardens after visiting the Monastery but those photos and information will be on a separate post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After our tour we decided to
explore part of the Arab souq or neighborhood called <b>Wadi Nisnas</b>. From reading our blog, you
know by now how much we love walking around local markets and getting off the
tourist track whenever we can so it was delightful walking through some of the
alleys and lanes of the Arab Quarter and the <i>souks</i> or markets buying apples and other snacks to munch
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some photos of Haifa street scenes you might enjoy seeing:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The biggest pomengranates we've seen and we've seen zillions of them on this trip!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haifa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is a city perched on hills and surrounded by the Mediterranan on the north side, it was tricky trying to follow the city map and not have to walk up streets and then down others as everything looks straight on a map! Steven the Navigator did a fantastic job ensuring we didn’t have to climb up more than necessary which my still painful knees appreciated. He got us to <b>Sirkin Market</b> where fruit and vegetable stalls, tiny hardware stores, delicious smelling bakeries, and miniscule kitchen shops backed up traffic for several blocks. The actual heart of the market was underground where we were the only foreigners wandering the aisles teeming with elderly shoppers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not loaves of yummy French bread but loofah sponges!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dates and raisins, my all time favorites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In one of the Sofia posts, I included a photo of McDonald's in Arabic script; now, here's one in Hebrew for you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The girl in blue saw me taking photos and followed me for a block or so wanting me to take a photo of her and this other girl. Iwas glad to oblige of course.</span><br />
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after having walked virtually all day throughout a good part of the city that
it wasn’t particularly attractive to us except for the stunning </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Baha'i</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Gardens</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of course and the city’s superb location on a hill
overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The architecture was mostly the same cream colored, limestone block style, drab construction. It was almost as if we'd been transported back 40 or so years to many cities in the former USSR. I'm sure the limestone is probably a perfect building material in this part of the world but to see it almost exclusively used for flat topped building blocks seemed very uninspiring.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My sincere thanks to you, Emi,
from </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ottawa</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Montreal</span></st1:place></st1:city></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><i> for coming up with the title of today’s post! Annie in Jerusalem on 10/22</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We stayed in the town of
Goreme in the middle of the region so we could easily tour from there and also
see some of the most spectacular fairy chimney valleys in the region, and one
of two regional UNESCO World Heritage Site’s <b>Open Air Museums</b>. The Goreme
‘museum’ is actually a cluster of fairy chimneys famous for its spectacular
cave churches.</span></div>
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town to visit the museum, watching oodles of huge tour buses pass us as we were
able to take in the amazing sights around us one step at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Once at the museum, we spent
a few hours going from one hidden church
to another as we traipsed up and down rocks, in and out of narrow
crevices, and up fairly steep and very narrow steps that were the only way up
AND down. That made for some tight maneuvering, let me tell you, because there
were generally lots of people wanting to access the same spots we did. </span><br />
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counterclockwise so we simply followed the madding crowds from one church to
another. We had arrived at the museum mid morning about the same time as the
tour buses. We luckily had far more time than their passengers were allotted so
once the buses departed, it was almost as if we had the entire museum to
ourselves. What a difference that made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As we entered the museum, the
first thing we saw was a steep rock simply called <b>Convent and Monastery</b>,
that housed a six story convent, which had a kitchen and refectory on the
lower levels and chapel on the third.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">We could access the 11</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> C. wonderfully preserved frescoes of biblical scenes and saints’ portraits of the </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Elmali Kilesi</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> aka </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Church with the Apple</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> through a tunnel. The church has 8 small domes and 1 large dome and red ochre geometric designs and crosses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Above is<b> Barbara Kilise</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (kilise is Turkish for church). It had some frescoes but it was also decorated with red ochre symbols painted on the rock including some geometric designs. Normally when I, and I'm assuming you too, think of a church it's a lovely building made of wood, stone with an attractive facade. In Cappadocia, however, there are NO buildings identifable from the outside as being a church as all appear as simply big rocks, period. It's as if you were transported back to the Stone Ages and Fred and Wilma Flintsone were living next door. It's the uncanniest thing coming across huge rocks that are really churches and hold amazing frescoes and often the most colorful painitngs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The most stunning church was the <b>Karanlik</b> or </span><st1:place><b><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dark</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Church</span></st1:placetype></b></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> which has been extensively restored by UNESCO and has an exceptional group of frescoes throughout the entire church. Vibrant scenes dominated by deep blue colors decorate the walls and the domed ceiling. The frescoes, which show scenes from the Old and New </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Testaments, have retained their brilliant colors due to the structure of the church which lets in little light, hence its name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">To access the 11</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> C. </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Church on the Sandal</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> we had to climb up a narrow metal ladder – once again the only entrance and exit, so a very tight fit at times when others were coming down when we were going up or vice versa! The church was named after the footprints, or indentations some might say, below the Ascension fresco. Some believe they were the casts of Jesus’ own footprints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Just across the main museum area and a short way down the road was the <b>Tokali Kilese</b> or <b>Church with the Buckle</b>, the oldest church and one of the largest and most impressive. The church is made up of an ‘</span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Old</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Church</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’ and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘New Church.’ The former was built in the early 10<sup>th</sup> C. and less than a century later it became the vaulted atrium of the ‘</span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Church</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’ which was dug deeper into the rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As we’d wandered through Goreme on the way to the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Open</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Air</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, we’d passed a number of carpet stores and we both decided to stop on the way back and ‘look’ at some. Knowing this was our last day in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and thus our final opportunity to buy a carpet made us more receptive to buying than we’d been passing 101 carpet stores in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and every other city we’d been in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. I had had extensive notes with me about buying Turkish carpets but threw them out after we left </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> thinking that was no longer an option.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After getting hopelessly lost in the pouring rain, we finally found our way back to the hotel just in time to be picked up at 5:30 to be taken for a Whirling Dervish ceremony in the town of Avanos 30 minutes away. After having visited the Whirling Dervish </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> back in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, we were excited to be attending an actual ceremony. It was held in the gorgeous stone Cultural Complex that we had just enough time to walk through and admire its beauty before sitting down on seats around what looked almost like a boxing ring. No photos were allowed during the performance which consisted of 8 men, 4 musicians/singers, 1 master Dervish and his 3 much younger associates who twirled magically to the sounds of the flautist, drummer and guitar players.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was held in the gorgeous
stone Cultural Complex that we had just enough time to walk through and admire
its beauty before sitting down on seats around what looked almost like a boxing
ring. No photos were allowed during the performance which consisted of 8 men: 4
musicians/singers, 1 master Dervish and his 3 much younger associates who
twirled magically for about 30 minutes to the sounds of the flautist, drummer
and guitar players. Though it was of course a religious ceremony, it seemed so
much a like a dance performance too as the 3 younger men moved so gracefully
and seemingly effortlessly. We were in the first row and didn’t notice their
breaking a sweat. Once the religious part ended, the men continued to twirl for
a few moments so that pictures could be taken; I don’t think I’ve ever seen so
many flashbulbs go off in front of me in such a short time!</span><br />
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-73473956615512822852014-10-20T13:19:00.001-06:002016-09-18T08:17:50.470-06:00Pinnacles, Cones and an Underground City in Cappadocia <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We wanted to visit the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> region of </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Central
Turkey</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> after hearing about
it from our daughter, Natalie, who visited </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> a couple of years ago but didn’t have the time to
visit magical </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. In </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, there are unimaginable rock formations, spectacular
valleys, ancient cave churches and underground cities that reach many stories
beneath the surface and could house thousands of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">More than 100 million years
ago, 3 volcanoes in </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> erupted, dropping lava, mud, and ash over the region.
Over eons, the explosive products cooled and compressed to form <i>tufa</i>, a soft,
porous rock easily worn down by erosion. Water pored down, carving and
separating giant ridges the rock into gorgeous valleys. Wind further whipped
around the formations, further shaping them into elaborate pinnacles, cones,
pillars and mounds. Harder layers of rocklike basalt resisted erosion longer
and often ended up balanced, like hats, on top of a tall cone. Oxidation gave
the formations color, and then humans began to do their own carving and
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After pulling an all nighter at
the Antalya Airport on the Mediterranean coast and not being able to check our
bags in until 2AM for our 3:40 departure to Nevsehir Airport, an hour west of the town of Goreme where we were staying in
Cappadocia, we were just the wee bit tired getting to the hotel around 9am!
Nonetheless, after dumping our bags at the Elysee Cave House, we decided to hop
onto the all day Ilhara Valley Tour leaving at </span><st1:time hour="9" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">9:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Steven was quite happy doing it as it meant that he
could sleep while on the bus and only had to awaken when I prodded him saying
the bus was stopping at an overlook or having to get out and hike, eat lunch.
It also meant that neither of us had to make any decisions all day long!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">The </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Goreme Panorama</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> was our first stop and what a sight it was to behold the breathtaking views. Steven and I both remarked on the similarity to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah but the size and sheer number of spires, cones, etc is far greater than those at Bryce.We only had about 15 minutes to take in the sights, grab a drink of </span><i style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">cay</i><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">, i.e. strong Turkish tea served in small glass cups on a saucer and/or buy any souvenirs before being herded back on the bus.</span><br />
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<st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, our guide told us, is an Old Persian translation meaning </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Land</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Beautiful Horses</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The region has such a harsh climate, with temps in the summertime reaching 40 degrees with little rain and no humidity and bitterly cold and lots of snow in the winters. Combine that with an equally harsh and mostly barren landscape and one understands why it was the land of the horses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Next up was a stop at the </span><b style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Derinkyu Underground City</b><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">, one of 36 underground cities in the area; only 10 are now open to the public though. All the tours stop at this one though because it’s the largest and the deepest at 85m; it has 16 levels and up to 1,300 people could survive living entirely underground for up to a month at a time. It was built by the Hitites and then used by the orthodox Greeks from the 4</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> through the 11</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;"> centuries. It received UNESCO designation in 1964. We spent about an hour down there which was quite enough for me, thank you! It was certainly eye opening to visualize how people coped living in such confined quarters and to see the morgue, the ventilation system, the cooking area, the stables, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the bottom of the tunnel,
50 m underground in Level 7, was the <b>Meeting Point.</b> It was the biggest
area and everyone could see each other in only that space. When people broke
the rules, punishment was meted out in front of everyone in the Meeting Point,
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After seeing quite enough of
the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Underground</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, we were driven for about an hour to a great little
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The chicken <i>sis</i> or
shish kebab was one of the best meals certainly in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at this restaurant that seemed to cater exclusively
to tour groups. Our group sat down at big long tables already set with dishes
and cutlery, the guide explained the 4 menu options, we all ordered, had our
drinks, then ate the delicious lentil soup and a salad. Within 10 minutes from
the time we ordered, our piping hot lunches appeared – I don’t know how the
restaurant staff did it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The rain had started in
earnest while we were eating but most of the group chose to go on a 2.5 mile
hike through the <b>Ilhara Valley</b> anyway. It was much like hiking at a
number of mountain parks in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Colorado</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in the sense of following a stream, seeing wildlife
on rocky cliffs and the terrain was also similar. We saw several signs to
churches in the valley but our guide kept us on a short leash and we weren’t
allowed to detour, much as we wanted to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The guide did lead us to one
lovely old church called </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Agacali </b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">before we continued our walk in the Ilhara Valley.</span><br />
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Monastery</b> where we scrambled up over rocks that we could only reach by
walking through crevices so narrow we could only put one foot in front of the
other. Was I ever glad that neither of us had wider feet as we couldn’t have
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of the strangest sights I’ve ever seen was field upon field full of
apparently harvested huge pumpkins, not surprising when 95% of the country's pumpkin
industry is in </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cappadocia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">! But the guide explained that the pumpkins are only
grown for their seeds, a snack loved by Turks. Once the seeds are extracted,
the pumpkins remain on the ground until some are used for animal food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tour’s final stop was at </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Pigeon
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day but only learned here that the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">people carved the dovecotes
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-77310578050410628472014-10-19T23:03:00.002-06:002016-09-18T08:17:50.476-06:00Blissful Days on the Mediterranean <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It took us a long time to reach Cirali, literally our next port of call, on the Mediterranean coast from Pamukkale; first a ride to the local bus company office from our hotel, then a dolmus to the nearby town of Denizli, then a intercity bus to Antalya, the 'big city' near the coast, then had to hunt down another dolmus to the Cirali main junction where we got dumped out on the side of the highway, then yet another dolmus for the final 7 km ride to town. At some point, Steven asked 'Why did we (he meant me!) pick this place to come to since it's taking us so long?' I couldn't blame him for asking as I was also thinking the same thing!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">View of the mountains surrounding Antalya from the dolmus.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I'd read that Cirali is a great place if you just want a couple of days on the beach and/or some time on
a boat plying the sometimes navy, sometimes turquoise colored waters of the Mediterranean. But both of us were disappointed by the
village itself as the one road is one massive mud puddle and the stores are
small, dark and not places you want to spend either time or money. But the village
is wedged between tall mountains and the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mediterranean</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> so a stupendous location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After checking into our
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven and I are so used to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Florida</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s sandy beaches that are also a shell collector’s
dream. Cirali’s beach though had no shells at all but instead some pretty large
boulders and then millions of smaller rocks and pebbles to walk on. It was not
a beach you wanted to lie on but just a few feet up from the beach, restaurants
lined the ‘road’ and each had set up their own chaise lounges and tiki huts one
could laze in and drink and eat to one heart’s content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It had been a long day so we
turned in early after grabbing a bite to eat. The next day, <b>October 15th</b>, w</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">e both wanted to go on a
boat cruise up and down the coast for the day and were easily able to pick
up tickets 20 minutes before the </span><st1:time hour="10" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">10:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
departure as it was late in the season and therefore fewer tourists than in the
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tour company
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having had time to air dry it yet.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Shortly after we left, it began raining so we all scampered from our comfy cushions above deck and hovered together in the cramped quarters below trying to escape the rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was constantly amazed at
how the crystal clear water changed color dramatically from a deep navy to a
lovely shade of turquoise and then back again and again. I don’t ever remember
seeing water those colors before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had gone with a number of the
others in the small motorized dinghy to a small cove on the beach to walk in the warm waters of the Med while Steven decided to stay on board.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We were told the boat would pick us up again in about 30 minutes but I think the young man in charge had little sense of time as I and others were ‘stranded’ on the beach for more before being picked up. While waiting on shore, I chatted with a charming couple who were on their honeymoon: she’s an atheist and half Finnish, half Swiss and has spent time in the tiny burg of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Finland</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with her stepfather. She met her husband, 13 years ago when she was only 16 in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Basel</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Switzerland</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">; he’s Muslim and half Swiss </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">and half Turkish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This man was from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> like a number of people on board; he’s 73 and makes a
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Steven and I spent most of
the day having a great time chatting with <b>Chris</b>, a former F5 Fighter
pilot from the US and his witty and charming wife, Ann, a midwife originally from
Tasmania, Australia who left home at age 18 to go backpacking and never
returned to live in her home country; they met in the Middle East and now live
in Bakku, Azerbaijan with their 9 year old son, James after working all over the
world. They’re in the process of trying to decide where they want to live
‘permanently’ after he retires from the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> government in a few years since they’ve been expats
for so long and no place they call ‘home.’ The world is literally their oyster
and they’ve seen so much of it – Ann for instance is part of the Travelers' Century Club, having
been to over 100 countries – but trying to narrow down their choices of where
to live for at least a few years must be tough, especially when you have a
young son’s schooling to consider.</span><br />
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see it up close. Steven elected to stay on board and took over the photographer’s
duties instead! The water was fairly warm and not at all choppy then but it was
much further to the cove than I had thought and I’m not a strong swimmer. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was glad to get back to the boat where Steven
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to the hungry passengers and later Turkish tea and Petit Beurre biscuits with
orange slices. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Luckily neither Steven nor I
suffer from sea sickness but unfortunately 2 strapping men in their late 20’s
or early 30’s were looking greenish and very much worse for wear from the
choppy waters and the rocking boat and could not wait until we got back to
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another beautiful day dawned
in paradise so we walked down to the beach with swimsuits under our clothes
looking for the nearby ruins Chris and Ann had told us about the day before.
Had a blast walking in a sort of jungle at times looking at the extensive
ruins of Olympos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Remember my saying we had sucha blast traipsing throught the ruins? </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Well, it wasn’t such a blast though treading ever so carefully over this rickety footbridge made of large twigs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Then the beach beckoned so we headed back to the tiki huts and chaise lounges put out by the beachside restaurants. One restaurant employee kindly said we could sit for free on his chairs which we did for 2 and a half hours but we ended up buying a bottle of water for about triple the going rate which was worth it for him and us since there was only one other group occupying the 25 or so chairs..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Suellen: I thought of you and
Ron in terms of your love for seashells but there were none to be found, only
millions of beautiful rocks in all sizes and as smooth as a baby’s bottom. Steven
thought I had rocks in MY head when I began picking some especially beautiful
but small ones up to bring home! I still have them but whether I’ll chuck them
because of the extra weight before we get home, remains to be seen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally dragged ourselves from the beach around
</span><st1:time hour="15" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to take the same convoluted way back to the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Antalya</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> bus station: first the town dolmus to the main road
7kms away, then another dolmus to the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Antalya</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> bus station an hour away, then a fairly long wait
before the city bus left for the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Antalya</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> airport about another hour away. Oh well, it wasn't like we’re in any sort of hurry as our flight back to Istanbul didn’t leave til <b>3:40AM</b>
and our connecting flight from there didn’t get into Nevsehir Airport in the
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Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-46978808489350737072014-10-18T12:34:00.000-06:002016-09-18T08:17:50.464-06:0010/13 Being Pampered by Karahayit's Elders<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There was nothing in the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">village</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pamukkale</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to see, no fun markets or stores to shop at and we didn’t feel like going
back to the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">South
Gate</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to see the
ruins there. The hotel had told us about a nearby town, <b>Karahayit,</b> that had its own small
mineral bath and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">hot
springs</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> so we
hopped on the <i>dolmus</i>, the shared bus/taxi I mentioned in an earlier post, for 2
TL each. What a delightful surprise the day turned out to be!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We met 2 women on the bus,
each traveling separately: one, <b>Anush</b>, a retired federal employee from </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Maine</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Florida</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> who’d traveled so far to <b>159 countries </b>and was<b>
</b>planning to visit soon the remaining 8 in </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Africa</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
she’s still not visited including </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Liberia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and the Democratic Republic of Congo. More power to
her! She’d stayed at the same hostel in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> we’ll be at pretty soon and suggested we take a day
trip organized by the hostel to Ramallah and the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West Bank</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. The other, much younger woman was from Kazakhstan but only Steven
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I had the time of my life
standing in the pretty hot waters of the town’s free </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">hot springs</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> that bubbled up every few minutes and made the water
almost unbearably hot. The springs and pools are obviously the town’s place to
be for the older generation in the morning hours as I was the only foreigner
there for a long time. Steven and the others were a distance away from the
action! It was immediately evident that they all come for the medicinal powers
of the hot mineral water and the mud in the adjacent pool as both the men and
women alike showed me their scrapes and calluses, etc. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was a much coveted
bench that sat two comfortably and three at a pinch if you didn’t mind being
wedged in by the fairly capacious older women. It was sort of like that old
children’s game of Musical Chairs but here there was no music!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had fallen flat on my face over spikes in the road about 10 days earlier in Istanbul</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">right outside our hotel and severely twisted my left knee and right wrist, particularly my thumb. I was so fortunate I didn’t break, a bone, my camera or more severely scrape my knees as it could have wreaked havoc with the rest of the trip. It’s been challenging ever since though to walk up or down steps but Steven has been an absolute trooper holding my left hand when we come to steps. Unfortunately though, my knight in shining armor couldn’t come to my aid when I had to use squat toilets! That’s been, excuse my language, bloody painful, because of having to bend my knees and then bracing both hands on either side of the walls try to get up again – not the most graceful of images, I assure you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Those of you who know me well
know I have a certain fondness for caramel and chocolate mixed together so I
was in hog heaven seeing these minute caramello bars for only ¼ of a TL, about
a dime. After trying one, I went back and bought 10 more, then decided to hell
with it and bought the whole box! Steven made sure to record the event for
posterity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the town's
only roundabout, there was this very large replica hot spring in case you
forgot what Karahayit's famous for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We’d seen doners, i.e. the
chicken or meat cooked on a vertical spit everywhere in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> but Karahayit was the first place we’d seen a lamb
doner and on a horizontal spit. Lamb's my favorite meat ever so I bought one with sliced tomatoes on a half of a
toasted baguette and Steven and I ate it walking down the street to go pick up my newly hemmed pants. It was so
yummy, my mouth is watering now just thinking of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We sure needn’t have spent time in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s Spice Market as Karahayit was overflowing with spices of every shape, form and description. Even though I thought I had bought our fill of spices in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Istanbul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and Sirince outside of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, I bought some meatball spice since it was so colorful in the bowl. Cheryl: I thought of you when buying it so please let me know if you and Dennis like meatballs OR want to use it in another recipe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After taking the
dolmus back to Pamukkale, we walked back to our hotel, passing this really nice
playground but on the rockiest terrain I've seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How great relaxing in the sun out
by the pool after the kitchen staff kindly allowed us to hang up our washing on
the line. When the rains finally came they were so kind in popping it in the
dryer for a bit and even then folding our shirts and unmentionables. Somehow we
couldn’t justify spending a whopping 40TL ($18) for the hotel to do our laundry - by far the highest price we’ve seen ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">What should have been a 3
hour nonstop bus trip from our hotel in Selcuk on the Aegean coast to the
inland town of </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Pamukkale</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> turned instead to a 4 plus hour journey with stops at
several </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">otogars</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> or bus stations, 2 separate buses and then a shuttle finally to our
hotel. Oh well, we finally arrived safe and sound at the lovely </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Venus Hotel</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and
ready to see the amazing travertines that Pamukkale is so well known for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">From a distance, the long
white smudge along the hills to the north suggested a landslide or mine.
Getting closer, it was the edge of a plateau we saw, more than a 100m above the
valley and edged in white travertine terraces, a geological fairyland that the
Turks have dubbed Pamukkale or ‘</span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cotton</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Castle</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.’ This incredible natural phenomenon was created by
the hot spring waters that gush up at the center of the ancient city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hierapolis</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. The therapeutic properties and bizarre appearance of
the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">hot springs</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> were known for thousands of years before the actual
town of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hierapolis</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was founded during the 2<sup>nd</sup> C. B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After donning swimsuits under
our T shirts and shorts, the hotel kindly dropped us off at the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">South Gate</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> where we had a short shadeless walk to the ruins and
terraces. We decided to forego seeing the ruins after just seeing the wonders of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus.</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> We headed instead directly to the stupendous cliffs and the
500m long walk down through the collection of thermal pools carrying our
plastic bags of shoes and clothes, etc as shoes are forbidden in the pool area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Not the most
fetching of swimsuits I'll be the first to agree, but it's lightweight. It's one
of my water aerobics suits. I had picked up the bucket hat at a street stall for about a dollar last year in Kunming, China on our stopover from Xian to Chiang Mai, Thailand. First time I've worn it since!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Pamukkale’s hotels once siphoned off the precious mineral waters for their own hotel heated pools but now the water flow is strictly rotated in order to preserve the site and allow more diminished deposits to ‘regrow.’ As thermal water surges over the edges of the plateaus and cools, carbon dioxide is given off and hard chalk – aka travertine – accumulates as a solidified waterfall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">These young
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also at some of the passersby. Steven, in his best Assistant Principal voice,
told them not to throw the mud at us. They did not!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Another somewhat
rough patch for our tender tootsies. Loved the ever changing designs wrought by
the dual forces of wind and water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was an
empty water park at the bottom; perhaps it was closed down for the season or
for the day because it was getting late - don't know.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The area in the
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one of the most unusual places to go immediately after getting married!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Very surprising
to think that trees would have any chance of surviving in these harsh
surroundings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were so lucky that the
weather forecasters had goofed again as it was warm when we set out and not the
torrential downpour we had been expecting. What an absolute blast we had
sitting in the pools and walking barefoot down the sometimes slippery surfaces.
For the most part however, the calcium surface made for smooth and pleasant
navigation.</span></div>
Annie Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244611304221436765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371557361269457913.post-45685849360625502022014-10-15T23:48:00.001-06:002016-09-18T08:17:50.461-06:0010/11 Visit to Ephesus: Jigsaw Puzzles & Cleopatra<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Guests at the hotel
recommended that we hike up the steep hill behind the hotel and then along a
lovely path before reaching the main road to walk down to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’s main entrance. We’re glad we followed their advice
as it was a lovely walk/hike on a warm day; we were thrilled beyond words that
we could actually wear shorts/skorts as we’d both thought that we might not be
wearing them again at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The monument on the side of the road was ‘Erected in 1996 by
the American Society of Ephesus in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary who Spent Her
Last Years in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.’</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our first view of Ephesus!</span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></st1:place></st1:city><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Ephesus</b></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>,</b> or Efes in Turkish, was home to 500,000 people at
its height and drew visitors from near and far with its promise of baths,
brothels, theaters, temples, public latrines and one of the world’s largest
libraries. Since </span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is laid out on the slopes of Mounts Pion and Koressos,
we opted to begin our tour at the upper Magnesian Gate, visiting the state and
religious buildings on the higher reaches before descending to where most of
the public arenas and agoras are located.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the largest temples in
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of </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Domitian</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> dedicated to the 1<sup>st</sup> C. Roman emperor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The <b>Odeon’s</b> a small
theater seating an audience of about 1,500 in a semicircle of stone seats to
enjoy theatricals and music recitals.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Municipality Palace</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">’ main thoroughfares, </span><st1:street><st1:address><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Curetes St</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, cuts a diagonal swath throught the ancient city and
was a processional route leading to the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Artemis</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">; ‘curetes’ are priests of Artemis.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A relief of <b>Nike, the Goddess of Victory</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Trajan
Fountain;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">built at the
beginning of the 2nd C. Remember seeing the references to Emperor Trajan in several
earlier posts including his statue?!</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">The monument to the 2<sup>nd</sup>
C. Roman emperor, </span><st1:place style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></b></st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
of </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hadrian</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">, has a frieze of Medusa to guard the entrance to ward
off evil spirits and, in another, the Christian Emperor Theodosius is
surrounded by pagan gods – a sign that the worldly </span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> was a tolerant place. The next 2 photos are also of the Hadrian's Temple.</span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Ephesus</b></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>' Public Latrines:</b> A narrow water channel </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">under the U- shaped marble sitting places </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">connected to the city
sewage system was laid to prevent the unpleasant odor in the latrines and quickly remove the waste. In the latrines which could serve 50 people at the
same time, people sat side by side by gathering up the skirts of their togas a
little bit!</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">I’m guessing the Ephesians
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Visited the massive <b>Slope
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to 7<sup>th</sup> centuries on the slopes of </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mount</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Koressos</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. This enclave, liberally decorated with frescoes and
mosaics, is evocative of life in the ancient town. I wonder how archeologists
have ANY clue how to possibly figure out what pieces match up with any of the
others to form anything. It seems likes the world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle that
has no possibility of ever being solved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For me the <b>Library of
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existing ruins in antiquity. The remarkable 2 storied building was commissioned
in the 2<sup>nd</sup> C. and was designed for double duty – as a mausoleum for
the Roman governor of the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Asia
Minor</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> province and as a
reading room stocked with more than 12,000 scrolls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The majestic <b>Marble Road</b> even had sidewalks and an underground sewage system back in ancient times.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the busiest businesses in town was The <b>Brothel aka The House of Pleasure.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Footsteps etched into the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walked next to the <b>Theater</b>
where </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">St. Paul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> preached to the Ephesians in this magnificent space.
It was the largest outdoor theater of the ancient world and was carved out of </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mount</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pion</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> over the course of 60 years.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">The Theater seats as many as 40,000 spectators and has the most incredible sound system. </span><span style="font-size: 18.8888893127441px;">Steven, speaking in a normal voice, stood in the center of the stage and asked people sitting in the upper reaches to wave if they could hear him. Some did!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wandered down the <b>Arcadian
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Drive – that was lined with elegant shops under the marble porticoes laden with
goods from throughout the Mediterranean World. At night, it was torch lit, a
luxury afforded few ancient cities. The </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Arcadian Way</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> was where Cleopatra paraded in triumph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Waiting at the
dolmus 'station' at the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">South Gate</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to go back to Selcuk. We were incredibly
fortunate that we visited </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in October because we escaped the brutal
summer heat and also the gazillion tourists visiting </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ephesus</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> then from their cruise ships docked in
nearby Kusadasi. As it was, there plenty of fellow tourists.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Above and below are the remains of the <b>Basilica of St. John.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One column rising from a
swamp is all that remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the
</span><st1:place><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Temple</span></b></st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> of </span></b><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Artemis</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. It’s the largest building in the ancient </span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mediterranean</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and was once surrounded by 127 columns; it’s a shrine
to the goddess of fertility, abundance and womanly concerns.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">More photos of the Basilica above and below.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tomb of St. John</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Basilica, we hiked further up the hil lto the <b>Citadel</b>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">How blissful
writing the blog to you all while relaxing by the hotel pool after a day of
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At dinner, Steven and I sat
beside lovely Laura and Lindsay, both traveling nurses who met while working in
</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Seattle</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Lindsay, on the right, will be working not too far
from us in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Colorado</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> hopefully with her boyfriend Shaun, also a fellow
nurse. I promised them both a delicious home cooked meal and to send them home
with baked goodies too. We all hope that Laura will come out and visit Lindsay
and Shaun and that the three of them will come for dinner then too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After seeing the
gorgeous photos of the pool</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and lounge areas online, I couldn’t wait for us to get to Atilla’s
Getaway. However, our so called ‘bungalow’ was simply a small room right next to the
others like in a motel but it had only one light, in the ceiling, no
soundproofing and to top it all off, no bathroom or even a sink. The communal toilets
and showers were about 50 steps away, past the pool and down some more steps
and around the corner. You had to be awfully careful not to fall in the pool if
you had to use the facilities in the middle of the night and weren’t quite wide
awake!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">And oh yes, the
hotel was a distance from town so we had to eat all our meals there and hard to
make spur of the moment decisions to go into town and wander about when we felt
like it. I goofed making the decision to stay here except for our meeting Laura,
Lindsay and Shaun of course!</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The comfy and
beautifully decorated lounge area - long way down though to sit! Most of the
hotel's guests were a group of Australian and other friends visiting from </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ios</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Greece</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where they had been working in bars and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">It was Nikos’ birthday so a cake was brought out to celebrate his special day. The revelry had actually started the night before and had gone on until the wee hours of the morning! </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">He’s from Ios and his wife is from </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px; text-align: left;"><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Australia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> and they run a restaurant back on Ios.</span></td></tr>
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