It is just so timely that it will be Christmas so soon from now and here I am blogging about my visit to the very place where it all began. I mean, what happened in Betlehem over 2000 years ago is the reason why Christmas is celebrated all over the world every December 25 and I feel so blessed to have been there in my recent visit to what is always considered the Holy Land at least in the Christian…
There was something so fascinating about being in the Holy Land that even breathing the air felt so different and refreshingly ‘holy’ 😛 Out into the open again (read how we crossed one of the most tightly-guarded borders in the world here ), we dragged our bags towards a waiting bus – the bus that would take us to places all throughout our stay in the Holy Land. What I immediately liked about the bus was the availability of a wi-fi…
Crossing the border of Jordan and Israel can be both exciting and intriguing. Being one of the most strictly guarded international borders in the world, I would say crossing the border was such a once in a life time experience. I had been imagining how it was like all my life and when the time was finally coming, I could feel the nerves running down my spine like a wave of electric current or something. Bzzzz! Bzzzz! 😀 Of course,…