{"id":4486,"date":"2014-01-13T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:06:20","slug":"instawalk-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/01\/instawalk-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when i picture Bethlehem in my head, i think of inns and mangers, not an overabundance of churches and military checkpoints. to be honest, i didn&#8217;t know what at all to expect since it wasn&#8217;t until this morning that i really learned about how separated (physically and otherwise) the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Bank\">West Bank<\/a> really is. for five minutes i tried to get the car&#8217;s GPS to get us to anywhere in Bethlehem. i was completely confused as to why it kept complaining no route could be calculated and why it had absolutely no street maps at all of the city. thanks to a combination of road signs and Google Maps, though, we made it to &#8212; and through &#8212; the checkpoint and to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manger_Square\">Manger Square<\/a>. and it wasn&#8217;t until we drove up to the checkpoint that it dawned on me: i was entering the West Bank, not really Israel anymore and hence outside of the GPS coverage area. (this is also a side effect of letting someone else do all the planning &#8212; i know pretty much nothing.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>sidebar: parking\u00a0<\/strong>it&#8217;s not immediately clear where you can and can&#8217;t park &#8212; we asked a policeman and he directed us to a lot on the other side of Manger Square (continue driving through it, start to head downhill, and will be on your left, a big lot). parking was free despite there being an attendant &#8212; not sure who pays his wages!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Bread cart by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11924679954\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bread cart\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7430\/11924679954_518b548ccc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man selling bread on the way to the Milk Grotto<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Chandeliers by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11925105546\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Chandeliers\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3725\/11925105546_f42a0c654b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chandeliers inside the Greek Orthodox portion of the Church of the Nativity<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Staircase by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11924245205\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Staircase\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2824\/11924245205_31b649e70e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church of the Nativity<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Kissing where Jesus was born by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11924540683\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kissing where Jesus was born\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3740\/11924540683_41945880a4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kissing the Grotto of the Nativity, the site where Jesus is believed to have been born<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11924281895\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"upload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2825\/11924281895_2544b38287_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above the Milk Grotto<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Heading back out to Israel. Passing by the wall. by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/11923771285\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Heading back out to Israel. Passing by the wall.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7449\/11923771285_4ce8f19e44_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier\">West Bank Barrier<\/a>. If I had more time, I&#8217;d love to have done to walk along it and look at the street art.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when i picture Bethlehem in my head, i think of inns and mangers, not an overabundance of churches and military checkpoints. to be honest, i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Instawalk: Bethlehem #travel #travelblog #f2b","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[117,1135,862],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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