It is now Monday evening here in Bethlehem. We just arrived back in the West Bank/Bethlehem an hour ago. The sun has set and the calls to Muslim prayer (prayer caller) are full volume and from every direction! Some of the group wanted to make one last shopping trip here in Bethlehem so our bus driver took them over to a place to find some last minute things. The rest of us are too tired.
It has been a great trip! We have seen so much. We spent the late morning swiming in the Dead Sea, well just a few of the group actually got in the water. Lunch was at Temptation Restuarant in Jericho. The mountain just outside of Jericho is where Christ's first temptation took place.
We leave the hotel at 3:45 am tomorrow, Tuesday, for the transfer to the airport for the flight home. We will leave our guide here and just go to the airport with the bus chauffeur. The guide is Palestinian and his presence on the bus will add at least an hour to the transfer time to the airport because of security, his security issues (just because he is Palestinian) as we cross the border wall check point. The Jewish authorities really take it out on the Palestinians here, amazing and sad to hear from church leaders having to put up with it all! Fighting and celebrations is Gaza tonight as it is the anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death today.... it is calm here where we are ....
More updates during the flight home.
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