Towards the end of May 2012...
I went through a lot of mental torture trying to obtain my Israeli visa. I finally had it on May 15th, we booked our flight to Amman on May 17th and we were off. Our flight was from Chennai, a stop-over at Doha and we were at Amman.
The taxi driver at the Amman airport spoke fluent Arabic and did not know English. An eccentric character, he played some dabke music as we drove around the lovely countryside of Jordan layered with olive trees on hills, Bedouin camps in some places and at the far end, one could see the dead sea. I wondered whether Palestine would be similar! "It is, except there are many settlements on hilltops", Evan said.
We reached King Hussein Bridge and after a prolonged investigation of my luggage from the Israeli authorities, we reached Jericho.
Soon we drove down to Jerusalem in a shared taxi accompanied by the Journalist, Paul Martin and another Palestinian who had a view that the attack on the World Trade Center was an American Conspiracy.
Paul took me for a small walk showing me the old city of Jerusalem, the walk ended up being a little long and in the middle of the night, I was finally at my Indian friend's place.
I went through a lot of mental torture trying to obtain my Israeli visa. I finally had it on May 15th, we booked our flight to Amman on May 17th and we were off. Our flight was from Chennai, a stop-over at Doha and we were at Amman.
The taxi driver at the Amman airport spoke fluent Arabic and did not know English. An eccentric character, he played some dabke music as we drove around the lovely countryside of Jordan layered with olive trees on hills, Bedouin camps in some places and at the far end, one could see the dead sea. I wondered whether Palestine would be similar! "It is, except there are many settlements on hilltops", Evan said.
We reached King Hussein Bridge and after a prolonged investigation of my luggage from the Israeli authorities, we reached Jericho.
Soon we drove down to Jerusalem in a shared taxi accompanied by the Journalist, Paul Martin and another Palestinian who had a view that the attack on the World Trade Center was an American Conspiracy.
Paul took me for a small walk showing me the old city of Jerusalem, the walk ended up being a little long and in the middle of the night, I was finally at my Indian friend's place.
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