Resting in Egypt, we could not not be in Jerusalem. I donated a trip to the pyramids, just just to see this holy city. The trip was issued, of course, extinguishing and severe. We left the hotel in 1 night, and returned to 2 nights in a day. Immediately I will say that they took a tour of our guide, and then disappointed, because the team was driving a Salonian from people on the bus, it turned out that we were overpayed by 2 times. We drove in one bus to the border, then we landed us, we went through the border and sat down at another bus with another driver. And we picked the guide not far from the Dead Sea and then they landed there.
The Dead Sea is not immediately impressive, in the pictures more beautiful, but then I do not want to leave it. Water in it is warm, even hot, the feeling that you go on the jelly, and at the bottom of a large layer of salt instead of Sal. It is necessary to neatly splash in the water, trying so that the water does not get into the eyes and mouth, there will be a stove. In water, it is not recommended to be more than 10 minutes and be sure to wash off the salt. We obeyed, got out and smeared with mud, and then we were swam in the sea. Feeling difficult to convey, it is only necessary to try to feel the beauty of bathing there. The skin after these procedures has long remained smooth and tender, I never had such a skin like then.
Further, we were waiting for a sightseeing tour of Jerusalem, with a hatce of crying and the rise in Calvary.
We saw the cross on which Jesus was executed, came to the tomb of the Virgin.
These holy places for everyone, probably, you need to visit at least once in my life. But upsets that everywhere a lot of military, Bethlehem is located on the territory of another country, and there is generally poverty, people have no work. People came to our bus, offering something to buy, and I especially mental it was one man who sold my handmade bags with pictures of Bethlehem, it was seen that he sells them from hopelessness, because, probably, you need to feed the family, but He was some humiliated appearance. Surprised the difference in the mentality of Egypt and Israel. In Egypt, anywhere shows working women, they sit at home, and men earn money. In Israel, on the contrary, men pray, and women earn money. Many, by the way, saw girls in military uniform with machine guns. They serve in their army.
Stayed near the field with a growing strawberry. So, they have no chernozem, alone bauxes that look like a red clay. And in Israel, it is hard with fresh water, it is very expensive, so drip irrigated on the fields everywhere. But despite this, a large area of the country is busy with agriculture, and they still manage to even export their products.