Half marathon through Jerusalem
Nai-publish: 02.11.2019
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Today the feet are burning like Abraham's back then (and he just thinks to himself: 'ridiculous, your few kilometers')
We walk to the museum.
On one hand, it would be strange to drive a car when there is no one else on the road and on the other hand... what are two kilometers anyway?
For those who still don't completely believe in 'no cars':
For a city with 1.5 million inhabitants, that's pretty scarce, right?
When we arrived at the Israel Museum, there were security checks, no one questioned Kenan's origin, and each of us was quickly in the building that interested him the most. For me, it was archaeology:
Here you can see a copy of the document that mentions the people of Israel in 1200 BC for the first time, and below it, an inconspicuous piece of stone that is the only part on this earth that provides evidence that King David must have actually existed (it says something like 'yes, we have captured the Israelis, they are currently under King xy, who is a descendant of King David').
One of the, let's call it, most interesting things (although there is still so much more!) are the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Less than two hours before Israel signed its independence, the scrolls were discovered in a cave in 1947.
The fact that the Book of Isaiah is the only one that is completely preserved in one of the Torah sections and that it also tells exactly which parts of Israel are promised to the Jews may be considered a coincidence - but it doesn't have to be ;).
Here it's Salam instead of Shalom!
After another four kilometers to the Old City in the Arab quarter (because of food), we were able to make our way through a crowded market again. The Sabbath was slowly coming to an end and it was filling up.After Astrid almost got a scolding from an Arab yesterday when she said goodbye with Shalom and he insisted on Salam (although he sold me a bag with the word 'Shalom' on it), today we went more discreetly through the quarter with the goal: falafel and shawarma, and we are happy.
My fitness app on my phone has been showing 'You have reached your daily limit' for five kilometers now, and we arrived at the hotel quite exhausted.
Kenan apparently still had too much energy and disappeared into a bouldering hall, and the rest of us are getting information for tomorrow or catching up on missed internet consumption with the Bedouins ;).
Tomorrow we will visit the Temple Mount, the City of David, and let's see what else Michael has in store for us :)
The last few days are approaching, but somehow it's not that bad, because after the cockroach in the shower yesterday, I won't see the next one until Germany (yummy, yummy).
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