This is all I have so far from the ride in from the Israel/Jordan border just north of the Dead Sea. We drove through the West Bank, East Jerusalem (mostly Palestinian), around Old City, and into West Jerusalem. It was quite surreal and I cannot wait until tomorrow morning to start exploring!
Pictures include parts of the West Bank and East Jerusalem (Palestinian side). Two Palestinian kids in the bus who, through their broken English and my Lonely Planet Arabic, I found out live in the Muslim Quarter in Old Jerusalem, near the Al Aqsa mosque. They asked me if I love Muslims and Muhammad - quite direct! I told them, as you all can attest, that I love everybody!
It was a quite interesting experience when we passed an Israeli security checkpoint and an IDF guard with a big automatic weapon came into our van asking for identification. We scrambled to find our visas on our passports - unfortunately couldn't take a picture of him though!
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