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The seventh Station of the Cross, where Jesus is said to have fallen the second time.
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| The Western Wall of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem.
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| Facing away from the Western Wall, a bit of open space in front of the Jewish Quarter.
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| I took a shaky video of the view from the top of the Temple Mount. It was a rainy, cold day. Visitors are only allowed up there for a couple of hours per day, when there is no mosque acticity, it seems. Click here to check it out if you want.
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The Church of the Ascension up high on the Mount of Olives.
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| A view of East Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.
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| At the Church of the Pater Noster has the Lord's Prayer in dozens of languages on the walls. Chinese, no doubt to the chagrin of the CCP, is no exception.
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| It even came in languages some of my friends in West Africa speak. There was no Twi, Ga, or Fanti, though (the common languages in Ghana).
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A view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.
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| | The garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus spent his last night in prayer and was betrayed by Judas. That's what it says in the Bible and on the signs around the garden.
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| This was on the wall at the entrance to the Church of All Nations next to the garden of Gethsemane.
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Another funny sign. This one was in one of the gardens leading down the Mount of Olives past the Jewish cemetary. Naturally I watched at least three tourists step over the fence and pick olive branches behind this sign.
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| I had to wear a skirt (provided at the gate) to visit the Russian Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives. There were lots of cute, fat cats around the grounds of the church (which was gorgeous with golden onion domes I didn't photograph because I was too busy cuddling cats).
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| The tomb of the Virgin Mary is at the bottom of the Mount of Olives and there was a line of pilgrims from Sri Lanka up the steep stairs and out the door to get a glimpse.
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| From the other side you could see the wreck of the taxi we took out of Jerusalem. The driver was going too fast around a curve and couldn't stop for the road work barrier. We ran into a small bus of Orthodox Jewish teenage boys, and thankfully no one was hurt. It really helps to be in a Mercedes Benz during high speed, head-on collisions.
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