Submit by Lovitt Henderson

Heavenly Father, Look down on your humble, obedient tourist servants, who are doormen to travel this earth, taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs and walking around in trip-day underwear.

We beseech you lord, to see that our luggage is not lost and our overnight baggage does unnoticed at customs.

Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels that we may find our reservation honored, our rooms made up and hot water running from the faucets.

Lead us, Dear Lord, to good inexpensive restaurants where the food is superb, the waiter friendly and wine included in the price of the meal.

Give us wisdom to tip correctly we do not understand. Forgive us for under tipping out of ignorance over tipping for

Grant us the strength to visit the museums, the Cathedrals, the places and the castles listed as “musts” in the guidebooks. And if, perchance, we skip and historic monuments, to take a nap after lunch, have mercy on us for out flesh is weak.

  (This part of prayers is for husbands)

Dear God, keep our wives from shopping sprees and protect them from “bargains” they don’t need or can’t afford. Lead them not into temptation, for they know what they do.

(This part of prayers is for wives)

Almighty Father, keep our husbands from leering at the foreign women and them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in cafes and nightclubs, so they know exactly what they do.

(Everyone)

And when our trip is over and returns to our loved ones, great us to favor of finding someone who will look at our home movies and listen to our stories so our lives as tourists will not have been vain.

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Tour guide is dealings with different kind’s people. Sometimes happens that you run into a remarkable and surprising situation. That’s what happened to me many years ago. On that day I received a group of Jewish tourists from the U S at the Ben Gurion airport . After the group boarded the bus, we made our way to Jerusalem. These moments are very important because it the first contacts with the visitors coming to the Promised Land. They’re pretty tired after a long flight. These moments are used for a general briefing introduction regarding the rest of the day tour. The nice way to start the visit in  Jerusalem is to see the city from one of the outlook view points, and Jerusalem has a few great ones. Mach nicer than first contact with Jerusalem will be there and not hotel lobby.

When I was done with my briefing introduction, one lady asked me to come close to her want to talk to me. When I came to her she whispered: “my father is here with me”. She was in her sixties and in the group was mo man who could be her father. She pointed to a cardboard box she was holding and told me “My father is in the box and I want to bury him land of Israel“, I was shocked. Luckily we got to an observation point, and I needed to talk to the group. When we were boarding the bus I told the lady I need time to think about it, she agreed. No way could I go with her and tray buries the ashes in a cemetery, cremation forbidden in Jewish religion. The only exaction was with ashes coming from crematoriums ovens used by the Nazis during Holocaust.  You all welcome to visit in Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.  When I run into serious problem I am not ashamed to consult and ask advice from friends, so I did this time too. There were those how did not believed me and thought I was joking. One of my tour guides friends advised me to go with her to one of the trees  planting of KKL  Jewish national fund  buy trees and bury the ashes with the roots of the sideling’s . A brilliant idea I went with the lady to the John F. Kennedy Memorial planting trees center in Jerusalem . She bought seven trees to symbolize the Temple Menorah . She asked for a location she can recognize in case coming for a visit.

? I don’t know if that visit was ever made. Do you think I did it  

Ben Gurion airport, Israel, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, KKL, Temple Menorah, Kennedy Memorial

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Keep this video in a calm time, must see it on big screen with the music that accompanies it. So watch this wonderful creation.

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Here, in the main of Israel  Museum in Jerusalem. Lived collector Charlotte Bergman. She donated her collection of paintings and sculptures of her condition that would depart from him, and architects to Mansfield and Dora Gad built an impressive house where she lived until her death in her solitude. A rare opportunity to visit, within the framework of ‘houses”

IDF (Israel defend forces} soldiers are getting mach of education in addition to their jobs. Professional tour guides tour them in Jerusalem Yad Vashem , Masada Negev Galilee and more. Today I met this lovely tour guide girl guiding soldiers the history of the Golan Heights. Want to have her as your tour guide join the IDF.

                                                    Tphilin on Masada today

By Oded Ambar – a tour guide in Israel – www.israeltour4u.com

Masada is on the Unesco heritage list. The story of Masada is one of the most dramatic ones of Israel. Today, a well advance system of parking welcome visitors. I recall the days of the late sixties when the site was just opened to the public after years of Yigal Yadin excavations. To visit the tourists and other visitors had to come to the young town that was just founded in the middle of the Judean desert, Arad. Meeting place was one of the hotels in the city. Convoy of jeeps was expecting the travelers. In the first Jeep was a licensed tour guide speaking the group language. After boarding the jeeps convoy world made his way across the new city, towards the eastern edge. Where is established an environmental sculptor made by Yigal Tumarkin overlooking a breathtaking view of the Judean Desert.

After absorbing the inspiration of the desert the convoy began his way on a dirt road down toward Masada. After a drive of nearly an hour travelers reached the bottom of the mountain on its eastern side. Of the jeeps and start climb up the ramp built by Jewish war prisoners who were captured by the Romans during the great revolt against them.