Wednesday 8 May 2013

Gulf For Good Charity Trek Challenge to Palestine, Day 1 (26th April 2013)

As the title suggests, I signed up with the "Gulf For Good" Charity to trek across Palestine in the Footsteps of Ibrahim Challenge !!!

The first day had an early start .... I left home at 3:30 am, to meet up with the other 16 challengers at Dubai airport at 5:00 am, and we then caught the Royal Jordanian flight at 7:30 am to Amman, arriving 3 hours later. We were then met by our local guide, and although it took over 3,5 hours to clear immigration from Jordan into Palestine ....

.... we were soon at sea level and dropping down to the lowest city on earth, Jericho.


At 5:00 pm, we reached the Samaritan Museum at Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim, where we were given a very informative talk by Husney W. Cohen, who is one of the 700 remaining Good Samaritans and a direct descendant from Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob.