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1 The Palestine Heritage Trail was, when I walked it, called The Path of Abraham or Masar Ibrahim al Khalil
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2 outline of Palestine with a green line that is the Palestine Heritage Trail - Palestine is known in some circles as the West Bank
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3 the entire 330 km path - I walked from the second stop, Burquin, to Jericho in 8 days
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4 political map of the area
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5 National Geographic map of the Holy Land with the path I walked on in black
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6 Palestine in red - I did not enter the Gaza strip
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7 Tel-Aviv - Israel's most cosmopolitan city and where most foreign people who will do the walk fly into and out of
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9 one way to get to Palestine from Tel Aviv is to take the public bus which is what I did
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Day 1 - the route I walked in 8 days is in red
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Day 1a - Burquin to Araba - on the first day we walked just until the second bend of the green line
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Day 1b - the outside of what might be the fourth oldest church in all of Christianity is this Greek Orthodox Church
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Day 1c - this sign outside the church explains the history of the church
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Day 1d - inside the Greek Orthodox Church of St Georgios at Burquin
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Day 1e - Jesus healing the ten lepers
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Day 1f from the front of the church
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Day 1g - as we begin, we are surrounded by olive trees
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Day 1h - on the trail outside of Burquin
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Day 1i, drip watering olive trees
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Day 1j, a well-tended olive grove
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Day 1k, a view of the fields and hills we would cross
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Day 1l, a storm turned the path to mud
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Day 1m high tech shoes were magnets for mud
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Day 1n, a mother and daughter in the house on the right invited us in from the rain for coffee
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Day 1o, one of our hosts took this picture as we drank her coffee - and muddied her floor
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Day 1p stopping for lunch in a village bakery
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Day 1q curious school children practicing their English
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Day 1r - the boys thought we were rock stars or otherwise entertaining
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Day 1s most of the afternoon was spent crossing fields
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Day 1t - green fields looked like a Biblical land of milk and honey
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Day 1u in the village of Arraba where we spent the night a shop keeper gave us a box of dates
