West Bank - Ramallah

Today, we went to Ramallah for a quick day trip. Ramallah is in the West Bank and is where Arafat will be laid to rest. I was pretty nervous on the way there because this was the West Bank but everything worked out really well. The Palestinians were more friendly than the Israelis. A lot of people spoke excellent English. I actually thought it was very progressive and most like the West of all the places I've been thus far. I even had a cheeseburger there at Checkers. The soldiers and police were extremely helpful in giving us directions. Below are two photos of the streets of Ramallah.




We hit up this ice cream place that's supposed to be world famous but I forget the name.

Afterwards, we went to Yasser Arafat's tomb. Right now, it's just a memorial and they were building a mosque and moseleum behind it as shown in the photo below. We had a guard with us the whole time we were here and he pointed out the room where Arafat was staying for awhile.

On our way back into Israel, we crossed through the Wall. The crossing was heavily guarded. Ian and Andrew weren't thinking and took some photos. The guards called to the bus driver on a load speaker and they had to get out. I went with them to the guard shack and they were forced to delete their photos. I told them they were retards for taking photos. We all thought their cameras would be confiscated but luckily they weren't.