Tunnel tour

Our first stop in the city was to take a tour of the underground tunnel system. It was a fabulous tour! We went through storage areas, old water cisterns and passageways to see the western wall, the original walkway that had been built along the wall prior to the city area being built and some animated mechanical reproductions of the process. We ended our tour in an underground cistern that had water in it. Apparently this tour exit had only been open for about a week.

The tour exited into the Muslim part of the city where we were told we would be escorted by armed guard back to the entrance of the tour. I didn't see the guards as there was a man siting outside the entrance yelling at us about why did we come to his city if we were afraid of them and why did we need a guard. One of our party started yelling back that he wasn't afraid of them.

It was all pretty unexpected as we had just come out of a dark underground tour into the sunlight and couldn't quite make out what was going on. Unfortunately with this atmosphere we just continued on so didn't hear much about that part of the city. But apparently we were walking down the way that Jesus walked with the cross (I think).