OUR tour operator must have thought that we still had a lot of money left from our Holy Land Pilgrimage, so much so that they found it fit to allot one full day for shopping in our 2-day Dubai side trip.
We should have told them that we never really had a lot of spare money from the start. Our 1-day Dubai shopping tour became a window shopping tour. Continue reading
SAND dunes, 4×4 off-road adventure, camel ride, dinner in the desert, Arabian entertainment — these are the wild experiences awaiting us on the afternoon of our first day in Dubai.
After 12 grueling days in our Holy Land Pilgrimage we were physically wasted. So what’s another two days?
And off we went to Dubai for some more walking, more sight seeing, and even more picture taking. Continue reading
ON the afternoon of November 19, 2010, after 12 days in Dubai (1 day, in-transit), Egypt (3), Israel (5), and Jordan (3), we left Jordan on board an Emirates flight to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, officially ending our Holy Land Pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage have nurtured us spiritually but exhausted us physically.
Looking back, it is very difficult to imagine now how we managed to cope up with the grueling and impossible daily itineraries. Continue reading
The word Zion is best associated with King David, on whose bloodline Jesus, the Messiah, was born.
In present-day Jerusalem, the whole of Mount Zion is a memorial of King David, the greatest king of Israel before Jesus. Continue reading
