Shortly after leaving Bet Alpha, we entered the West Bank in our drive to Jerusalem. The landscape shifted to desert with very rocky, sandy and hilly terrain.
We witnessed very poor Palestinians toiling in their fields, including shepherds herding sheep and goats on the back of donkeys.
We drove past Jericho. It is not permitted to stop there - some of the interesting politics that we are learning about first hand.
Just past Jericho, we turned west for the final 30 minutes to Jerusalem. As we climbed fro 300 meters below sea level to more than 700 meters above sea level, we passed numerous bedouin encampments - basically very poor shanty towns with no electricity or running water with shacks or tents as living conditions.
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