A couple days ago we met a friend's daughter outside King David Citadel or also known as The Tower of David Museum which includes the Citadel.
It is intriguing and fascinating from the outside, so today, on our day off, Anna-Lee and I decided to venture in.
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| If it is this magnificent on the outside, what is on the inside? |
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| Inside the courtyard of the citadel, now made into a museum of the history of Jerusalem dating back 3,000 years. |
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| Giving us a map and a "phone" with a prerecorded self guided tour programmed in English,, Anna-Lee read the map to direct us to the 36 every-which-way stations. Each staion was a history lesson of a particular time period. |
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| I thought I'd done most of the stairs we'd have to do this trip. But no, we decided to climb every stair possible to the highest point in one of the towers - station 4. Here we looked over a 360 degree panorama of Jerusalem. This photo shows the Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock and the inside walls of Old Jerusalem. |
Inside the walls of the citadel are rooms with the history of Jerusalem in all the different time periods - Ottoman, Byzantine etc.
This is one place I would enjoy returning to as we only got about 15% of it done.
It helped me use up my remaining shekels however, as we prepared to depart to the airmport and begin the long route home
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| Waiting at our guest house patio for our bus to take us to the airport |
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| Saying goodbye to one of the four feral cats in our guesthouse as it waits to sneak into the dining room. |
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| Waiting with our team at Ben Gurion airport - Tel Aviv for our 1 a.m. 12 hour flight. Linda was selected as the sacrificial lamb to represent our team for security purposes by the security supervisor. Glad I paid attention to names as I was quizzed on the name of our tour guide and bus driver, where we'd stayed, what we did, how many on the team, what was our connection to one another, where were the other people from, if anyone else joined the team during our tour... |
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There were around ten stations to security. Just when we thought we were through, we had another one! Other questions I was asked were if I had an Israeli passport, if I was a part of a Jewish organization, how did I know the tour leader and if he was part of a Jewish organization, why did I want to go on the tour, and why now?
An incredible experience from beginning to end.
