In and out of the West Bank around Jerusalem today! Would you like to view the photos with descriptive captions first? Click here Ron, my guide has the licence that gives us freedom of passage, but requiring prior telephone notification to the Military for visiting the towns of Jericho and Bethlehem. The hotel concierge …
oday, we leave the modernity of Jerusalem behind and enter Palestine. We’re driving east from Jerusalem descending through the Judaean Desert ending in a steep escarpment that drops to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. Emerging from a tunnel under Mt Scopus, I get my first sighting of ‘The Wall’ and illegal Israeli settlements …