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Post by mikeydread on Mar 22, 2017 16:31:22 GMT
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Post by hankpank on Mar 22, 2017 16:59:05 GMT
I'm going in May and really appreciate a thread of tips and what to do. And not.
Do you know anything about the hotel's tours? There are still no info about them and I skipped booking them when i booked the hotel.
I guess they show all old Banksys on the wall, but if not it would be great to have a map of where to find them.
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Post by mikeydread on Mar 22, 2017 22:51:14 GMT
I'm going in May and really appreciate a thread of tips and what to do. And not. Do you know anything about the hotel's tours? There are still no info about them and I skipped booking them when i booked the hotel. I guess they show all old Banksys on the wall, but if not it would be great to have a map of where to find them. I know nothing about the tours. Are they available on the WOH website? Only when booking a room? I'm sure you've plenty of time to drop them a mail to sort it. I reckon it'll be a lot warmer in May then we were there. Craved me long johns I did. The local taxi drivers are desperate for money & will happily drive you around all the pieces for £20-£30. Most of them are within a small area & can be done on foot. I'd be interested to know if people are booking into the hotel for a few nights then straight out of the country asap or intended to visit any other areas? Personally we managed Jerusalem,Bethlehem,Tel-Aviv & Haifa in our week away. |
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Post by mikeydread on Mar 23, 2017 11:30:00 GMT
If your interested in the works on the #seperationwall then I recommend these 2 books.   Both are available in the WOH bookshop but I baulked at the price & ordered mine from Amazon. They were waiting for me when I returned. Wish I'd read them before we went. |
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Post by manty on Mar 23, 2017 22:07:00 GMT
I'm going in May and really appreciate a thread of tips and what to do. And not. Do you know anything about the hotel's tours? There are still no info about them and I skipped booking them when i booked the hotel. I guess they show all old Banksys on the wall, but if not it would be great to have a map of where to find them The morning tour was on a minibus from hotel to Jerusalem, with an Israeli who was showing and discussing the effect the Balfour declaration had on Palestine, and explaining the various land grabs, house thefts etc. Followed in the afternoon with a walking tour from the hotel along the wall to Aida refugee camp by a Palestinian guide. I would say it would be a great shame if people who make the effort to visit didn't do the tour, opened my eyes as to why Banksy is doing what he is doing, and to me the tour left a much stronger impression than his art. (Meant in a complimentary way) |
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Post by mikeydread on Mar 23, 2017 23:20:33 GMT
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Post by mikeydread on Mar 24, 2017 1:23:05 GMT
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Post by IggyWiggy on Mar 24, 2017 10:10:51 GMT
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Post by norbok on Mar 24, 2017 23:50:11 GMT
Thought we should share some tips to help future travellers. Picked this up & thought it may be of interest to some     boring! boring! boring..  Kadyrov bans Shiite self-torture rituals in Chechnya A group of followers of the Shiite ritual of driving knives in heads has been revealed in Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov has held a preventive talk with the self-proclaimed Caliph of the community. The Chechen Muftiate has treated the beliefs of the group as contrary to Islam. Scientists are puzzled on how the cult of religious self-torture has entered Chechnya. In January, a video appeared on the Internet, showing a group of men in one of the Middle East countries conducting some ritual. Five men had knives driven not deep into their heads. Their faces expressed no visible pain and blood. he video also showed a Moscow Chechen Aslambek Zubairaev. On February 2, he had a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechnya's Mufti Salakh Mezhiev and other members of the clergy. Aslambek Zubairaev was named the leader of a group of Chechens who took part in the ritual – the followers of one of the Shiite branches that had arisen in Iraq and is headed by Sheikh Mohammed al Kasnazani. The actions of Zubairaev and his followers are contrary to Islam, said the official of the Chechen Muftiate. According to his story, the self-torture rituals are unacceptable from the point of view of Islam. Residents of the republic also express their concern in connection with the spread of various religious trends in Chechnya. They fear extremes in professing Islam, both on the part of radical Salafism, and on the part of radical traditionalism, said Alikber Alikberov, the deputy director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Source: www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/38422/-Some results could be removed under European data protection legislation - google !!  ..Amazing, this film I watched on American sites (in Europe was forbidden), now everything has disappeared!   |
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Post by dodcoquelicot on Mar 25, 2017 6:45:47 GMT
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