the only time that we could visit it would be to squeeze it in right before our flight
today sunday morning it is like right next to the western wall that we were at a couple
of days ago so the dome of the rock is the third most important site in islam the guard
come up to us a few minutes later and just say hey this is a this is a holy place it's 804.
the train that we're trying to catch that gets us to the airport it was at 833.
do you know which platform oh my god
good morning we are here in jerusalem and we've got a pretty ambitious
morning lined up today we're supposed to get onto a flight heading to egypt but before we do that
we wanted to go and visit the dome of the rock in the temple mount here in jerusalem our flight
is at 11 15 and it's in a different city in tel aviv it's quarter after six right now honestly
like i don't know if we're gonna make it but like this place is so important to us that we see that
we're risking missing our flight so come along if you want to see whether or not we make it
there's always time for coffee right ten minutes okay uh that's okay then okay
okay yes there isn't always time for coffee he needed 10 more minutes we don't have done that
they're opening at seven so we've had so many conflicting reports of whether it opens at seven
or seven thirty and we decided to just show up at seven and they're opening at seven this is we
just got half an hour and this insane morning so we are so pumped so the dome of the rock
is like right next to the western wall that we were at a couple of days ago
uh so down below us there's lots of people praying so we are headed to the domino rock up here
we are here on the temple mount uh which is a kind of large area that surrounds the dome of the rock
also security here is very tight there are a lot of armed guards and armed policemen
has a little security cat
so the dome of the rock is the third most important site in islam so dome of the rock is
really important because this is where muslims believe the prophet muhammad
ascendant to heaven we're not able to enter inside you have to be a muslim
so we would just be viewing it from the outside but i mean it's such a special place we you know
we thought it was worth risking our flight just to see it and wow it's gorgeous
the dome is just like glittering in the morning sunrise here it is just still pretty calm pretty
peaceful we heard that this place could be super packed it's a really difficult like site in many
ways it's a contentious site because the location is also over top of the creation rock for the jews
dome of the rock or the temple mount uh holds the creation rock which is where they believe
all creations started i believe we read that it was the most holy site in judaism so overall
obviously like a really important place yeah this place was definitely worth i think for us to visit
cyber care okay but ask us if we missed our flight later maybe we might change our minds but doubtful
we were taking pictures like just with the camera and then we kissed like we just just like looked
on the lips and then immediately realized our mistake because we're here
we should that shouldn't be a thing every country we go to every muslim country we go to you know
just more conservative and um public displays affectionate are not appropriate and then and
of course here those customs continue the guard come up to us a few minutes later and just say
hey this is a this is a holy place no touching no kissing and he wanted to look through our photos
and make sure we didn't like take any photos of us kissing in front of the mosque which we didn't
oh man not one of our better travel moments are bad it's not that we don't know about
it it's just that we forgot in that moment and we of course like want to follow every kind of
tradition every kind of rule regarding these holy sites and we highly highly recommend that you do
the exact same thing be respectful and just don't make our mistake don't make our mistake exactly
i wish we could go inside i hear that it is absolutely stunning
hello hello how are you
ah are you studying yes oh very cool from canada canada yes and you
palestine how beautiful beautiful it's the islamic old building
yeah well it was originally built in like 673 or something
wow amazing amazing all right well thank you thank you good luck good luck in your school good luck
said bye-bye were at school and they asked them to tell us about this building they're like ah
they did a great job they did a good job and it seemed like i felt like they thought they were
like getting tested they were very nervous i think to be fair that one young man was also practicing
his english so yeah because there's a whole other facet of course his english was really good though
it's uh 7 30 so we are gonna make a move this place is so gorgeous we could spend
just hours walking around now we are looking to exit and uh get back to our accommodation
pick up our bags so that we could rush to the train station and then take a train to
the airport in television this is gonna be pretty wild but hopefully we'll make
it i'm just so glad like it opened at seven otherwise we would just be walking you know
oh my goodness that wasn't that was a miracle that was awesome that was our saving grace today
we've popped back into old city and they told us that the really the near skate is
jaffa gate which is on the other side so we have to now navigate the streets of old city jerusalem
in order to get back to basically the main road
okay this way there are lots of streets they diverge and intersect in many different places
that was a bit of a maze like i said i'm really glad we were there before
so that we can kind of get reacquainted with the uh tunnels or the walkways
i don't think niko has ever walked this fast in his life i cannot keep up
oh my gosh we're pretty sad but these are i think our last views of old city jerusalem it's 804.
the train that we're trying to catch that gets us to the airport in time it was at 8 33.
thank you take care okay
well we got our bags at least we have all of our worldly possessions again
okay we made to the train station with the help of a lovely local okay
i don't know about this it's 5 26
the train leaves at 5 33 and it's like eight floors down like i'm not exaggerating
do you know which platform
is this going to the airport thank you
oh my god that was not fun but thank god we're on on the train
it's moving now i finally headed to the airport that was exhausting
i don't believe we made that train oh my goodness now just to check in oh my god i'm so tired
holy [ __ ] yeah like i don't think i've ever seen an airport like this and of
course it's the one time we're not here three three and a half four hours early
oh my while we did not account for this many people at the airport
it's time to wait
we've been in this line for like i don't know this one like 30 or 40 minutes now and boarding
is supposed to be in 20 minutes we've been in line for a long time technically check-in ended but i
think they're letting us like stay because a bunch of us have been here for ages so i don't know
i hope we make it i can't imagine if we got this far and didn't make it from here
morning 30 minutes ago
that was insane after a super long lineup to check in there was a super long lineup for security
and then another long lineup for passport control this has been wild but oh my gosh but we made it
it's because the flight was late getting in like we were supposed to be boarding 30 minutes ago
our flight is supposed to originally leave in 20 minutes they're just calling us now
that was very lucky this whole day's been really lucky getting it at seven of
the morning and then now a late flight that actually allowed us to make it here on time
everything just had to be perfect this day oh my god so we're exhausted exhausted white sporting
yeah so i guess we'll see you in cairo this is it for us yeah thanks for watching
okay so we don't know why but everyone seems to be going the opposite direction though yeah
well the reason that it is
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