Published on Apr, 2025
This tour was well worth my limited resources. We started on time, and our driver was excellent. Our guide was friendly and did a good job of shooing off the pesky street merchants who got quite aggressive. Yes you do have to spend the obligatory 30 minutes browsing at a shop I already knew I wasn’t going to buy anything from them. Be aware that if you have a sensitive stomach, the road leading out of Bethlehem to Jericho is not the greatest so you might be feeling a little miserable like I was. Because of the current fighting situation, there were relatively few tourists at the church of the nativity, so we got to go down into the grotto with minimal delay. One thing I would suggest for this tour, or any other tour in a foreign country, is that you keep your expectations reasonable and know that things aren’t always going to work out as you would have liked. Learn to be flexible and look at the big picture. I got to go to West Bank on this tour that’s more than most people ever done. This tour was time well spent.
