Visit to Israel 🇮🇱 Day 10 Jerusalem Cardo Temple Mound Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery

Day 10 in Israel 🇮🇱.
Today we started on the Cardo and walked the well known Byzantine street with the imposing columns. We then visited the Temple Mount, got back to the Western Wall and finished the day with a walk to the Mount of Olives going past the Garden of Getshemane.
To enter the Temple Mount, the third holiest Muslim site in the world, if you are not a Muslim you can only do it at a certain time of the day and entrance is only through one door. We were also not allowed to enter the mosque nor the Dome of the Rock. But just walking on the Mount was an amazing experience. The mosaic work on the Dome of the Rock is amazing and it surely does not look that it has been around since 692 CE.
We had a great lunch on the Israeli quarter and tried a number of middle eastern dishes.
The walk to the Mount of Olives is full of surprises starting with amazing views of the outer wall, the Jewish cemetery with the Tombs of Absolum and Zecariah on the Kidron Valley. On the other side of the road we could see the Muslim cemetery with the Golden Gate in the distance.
We also visited the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of All Nations that enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed before his arrest. (Mark 14:32–42). The garden itself is beautiful. Whether or not it is the exact spot where Jesus agonized, it is very near it. Beautifully tended, the garden is full of olive trees of all ages. The oldest ones are probably about 2,000 years old.
We then walked up hundreds of stairs (in hindsight it probably would have been better to take a taxi or a bus) to the Mount of Olives.
The views from this site are breathtaking and we could not get enough photos.
We then took the bus back to the old city where we entered it through the Damascus Gate and visited a number of other roads we had not done before.
We even stopped for a knafeh nabulsiyeh, which originated in the Palestinian city of Nablus, and is the most representative and iconic Palestinian dessert. It uses a white-brine cheese called Nabulsi. It is prepared in a large round shallow dish, the pastry is colored with orange food coloring, and sometimes topped with crushed pistachio nuts.
Every day has been special so far but this one was probably the most special.

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