Almost time for pita! - Daniella's pre-Chag blog

If you like rocks and tunnels, you wish you were with us today! We saw the excavations of the Kotel, the Southern Wall, the Cardo, AND the City of David! We walked about 10 km and drank about 3 litres of water (meaning we visited about half the washrooms in the Old City) and went through a crazy whirlwind tour of Ancient Jerusalem.

I'll let Daniella tell you about it all...

We started off with a bright and earlier morning to discover some Kotel tunnels.  Underground in the tunnels we learned all about the history of the land where the Temple was. We talked a lot about Mount Moriah and everything that led up to the destruction of the Second Temple.

After, we got to explore the ancient City of David. I got a great picture of the city. My favourite part of today was what came next when we went to Hezekiah's tunnel. The tunnel started off dry, then we went into a part of the tunnel that was dark and filled with water. I was really scared to go into the watery part of the tunnel, but it ended up being really fun. The water wasn't that cold or deep, it was just right.

We went through one more tunnel, a dry one, to reach the Davidson Center Archaeological Gardens. It was a really cool part of the Temple ruins.  I found the most interesting part of today was the tour of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.

The reason I was so fascinated was because out of the four quarters in Jerusalem, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Armenian, the Jewish quarter was the smallest. I always thought that Jews had so much of the land in Jerusalem. I was surprised to learn that Jews had the least land in Jerusalem. For our last activity in Jerusalem, we went to the Western Wall. It was way more crowded then yesterday, but it was nice to see it one last time.