1 Day Summer Walk for children in and outside the walls of the Old City

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I don't think an itinerary for children in Jerusalem would be much different from on for adults. The way I explain about the various places would be different and would be directed towards their level of interest and understanding.

Naturally what this means usually is to make explanaitions more brief and to ask more questions and to give more vivid illustrations.

Usually the first place I would start with would be the top of a high building like David's tower or some other high building where we can see all of the Old City at a glance.

Then we'll visit the Cardo in the Jewish Quarter to see the remains of the different walls of the city and how the ground level of the city rose as each new civilization built a prominent building like a market place, a mosque, a church etc.

We'll then walk the legth of the Cardo, through the different quarters of Jerusalem, showing how in every period the same road remained as the main market place road of the city.

This will bring us to some interesting eating and coffee place in the market. I'f you aren't too strictly kosher you might enjoy tasting as we go along. If you are strict about kosher then we'll pick up some nourishment in the Jewish Quarter before starting our journey through the "shuk".

We'll arrive at the Damsacus Gate and we'll see the original Roman Gate of the city which Hadrian built. Today it lies under the Arab city from the days of Suleiman the Magnificent.

We'll walk around the walls on the outside of the city and so pass Herod's Gate and the Lion's Gate. There'll be lots of view points and I'm sure your children will have lots of questions.

We'll go into a cave which was formed by the quarrying of stones, probably for the Temple of the days of Solomon and where king Zedekiah is supposed to have fled from the Babylonian.

We'll walk along the eastern side of the city with beautiful views of the Kidron Valley and the Mt. of Olives.

Finally we'll come to the Dung Gate where we can visit the Davidson Museum at the southen wall of the Temple.

We'll pay a visit to the Kotel.

Then we'll go down to the City of David, where first we'll see a short 3 dimensional film about the history of the city, then we'll walk through the ancient water tunnels of the city of Jerusalem from the days of Hezekiah.

We'll visit the Shiloach pool, which was discovered very recently.

From ther we can take a public bus or a taxi back to the Jaffa Gate or some to Mt.Zion if you still have some energy.

We can either end our tour with the taxi dropping us at the Jaffa Gate or we can walk from Mt. Zion to the Jaffa Gate to end our walk.