It was tricky planning the route to get to Ein Gedi. Unless you go way down south around the West Bank, you'll end up having to drive through it for at least a little while. None of the locals we talked to thought it necessary to do that, in fact, some told us to just drive the whole way from where we were up north, straight down through the west bank. Dad wasn't comfortable doing that so we went southeast to Tel-Aviv, then east through Jerusalem and into the West Bank. We got through the checkpoint easily. I guess a white American guy and his daughter in a bright yellow rental car that says Hertz on it doesn't set off too many red flags.
Pictures:
1st: checkpoint coming
2nd: checkpoint
3rd: Those little shacks are Bedouins, we passed a bunch of little villages like that along the side of the road. Just beyond that is the wall that was recently built on the border of East Jerusalem to cut down on terrorists attacks in Jerusalem. Apparently it helped a lot.
4th: Camel along the road. There were quite a few.
5th: Jericho, I think Joshua did something there. Lowest permanently inhabited place on earth. Also perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
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