by Sarah Gallo | Oct 25, 2014 | Israel
After exiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, we walked through the 11th Century markets to the Jewish Quarter where we learned about the Jordanian takeover of Eastern Jerusalem. Two weeks after Israel was declared a state in 1948, the Israelis had to surrender...
by Sarah Gallo | Oct 12, 2014 | Jordan
We woke up early to head to Jerash, located in Northern Jordan near the Syrian border. After spending almost four hours in the car going in and out of sleep, we arrived at the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa (modern day Jerash), which was founded...