 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosa Going on a bit of a leisurely stroll today in the direction of Bethlehem from Jerusalem So what a lot of people What's fascinating about this city in this region is the extent to which Bethlehem Ramallah in Jerusalem are Kind of like one city. I mean you can literally zoom out on a map and you'll see what I'm talking about So as an Israeli citizen, I can't enter area A the West Bank Under normal circumstances, which is all the cities Bethlehem Ramallah Janine All the places under full Palestinian control But that doesn't mean that you can't walk out and actually the walk from Jerusalem to You can walk through it takes only about an hour Depending upon where you start in South Jerusalem to get to the checkpoint checkpoint 300 with Bethlehem I'm walking southbound here and traffic here is going out towards Bethlehem traffic on the other side That's coming in towards Jerusalem. And this here on my right is Talpio, which is one of the industrialized neighborhoods here in Jerusalem lots of factories there and not a whole lot else to see And this is Dirk Hebron going towards which means in English Hebron Road I'm just using Google Maps to keep track of approximately where I am as you can see I'm coming up to here Asher Veiner Street and then after that Dirk Hebron Road continues all the way to That checkpoint checkpoint 300 Let me just show you guys where I am so continuing southbound here Going out of Jerusalem and these big buildings behind me Those are the towers. It's kind of our known in here and this is kind of about the most southbound point in Jerusalem that's still really Jerusalem. I'm gonna actually do a video if I can remember When I'm crossing the Green Line the Green Line actually goes along Dirk Hebron Road. There's really nothing to see There's no actual Physical demarcation of the Green Line, which is really was only really ever intended as an armist expoundery between Israel and Jordan But the Green Line does cross along these road this road This is some of the scenery here still going along Hebron Road, and we're just Running parallel now to Talpio and there's some really interesting houses along the way here I'm not sure what this thing is. It's like this random house with an Israeli flag And these are all these really tall buildings here. This gas station here is actually It's labeled as Dawid Alon or Matt Rachel. It's a supermarket slash gas station And this means that we're already pretty close to where the Green Line is and this road is actually also used By people living in what's called Gush Etzion, which is a block of settlement over the Green Line And they would take this road going out of Jerusalem the road bifurcates And they take a right turn where the checkpoint is. You can see here Gush Etzion And Gush Etzion is called in Hebrew Gvish Hamin-e-Rod Which means the road of the tunnels and that's because when you go through Bethlehem There's a tunnel that brings you like under Bethlehem for a few seconds Okay, still walking to Bethlehem As per the sign and you can see we're far enough now in south Jerusalem That stuff is starting to get pretty scraggly these lovely olive groves here by the road And we're heading southbound towards Bethlehem and the West Bank etc and coming up on my left We've actually just passed Ramettrah Hill. You can see that's the Israeli place just outside of Jerusalem Passing by the entrance to Chomach Muel This is built over the Green Line. It's an Israeli Neighborhood of Jerusalem you can see in the distance. There's some gorgeous views here looking over the West Bank So just on the walk to Bethlehem now, I decided to call in to A local beer place and it's amazing that even in this kind of remote part of the road outside Jerusalem You can find the Carlsberg and beer so I'm just taking a quick hydration break before I continue further Towards Bethlehem on this amazing walk This is a really really nice walk. Despite the fact that's next to a really busy walk This here is traffic coming into Jerusalem on the other side going into Bethlehem Check out the scenery behind me. I'm doing this walk around sunset here. Just like beautiful olive groves And what you're looking at behind me is East Jerusalem, Carlsberg and actually looking to the West Bank and if we just go a little bit further up this way What you can see there's actually a amazing monastery That is a popular site for pilgrims. You can just see behind me here in the background I believe it's called Bar Elias Monastery and you can see all these kind of Crazy West Bank scenery and just here there is a monastery Which we're about to pass see the Monastery, it's actually a Greek Orthodox Church We're actually getting closer and closer to Bethlehem here I'm still heading southbound and this is actually there's amazing to see there's still agate buses on the road here And if you see this right turn the junction coming up This is Rose Marine Street and on the right is Gilo this road here in front of me heads towards the checkpoint And this is a little road here to more Elias Monastery And what you're already seeing in the distance is actually part of Bethlehem here these houses front of camera What an unusual time to take this trip sun down here in Jerusalem You can see the beautiful sunset here, and I'm just here just in front of the Road here the bifurcate and the view here is absolutely unbelievable these houses you can see in the distance That's already in Bethlehem, Baitzahor So is that so is this over here and traffic is mixed you can see a sign here for the monastery Okay, so we're now on the final stage of our journey crossing the road here to the right of me is Gilo And this is the road leading out to check point 300 So if you are interested in going walking between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, this is going to be the last stretch of road I'm actually surprised to see that there are agate buses Agate for those who don't know is the Israeli bus company There's agate buses that actually go this far and I think there's final bus stops just before the checkpoint You can just see here in the distance. It's just sunset here in Jerusalem So the lights fading pretty quickly, but that is Har Choma also known as Choma Chimuel Which is just next to Bethlehem almost there at checkpoint 300 coming into Bethlehem on the road here and About a let's say a 45 minute walk Starting in South Jerusalem But there are people I've heard of who have made the pilgrimage From Jerusalem literally walked into Bethlehem through this checkpoint and you can definitely do it So we're almost there. I'm just going to show you guys probably won't be able to go much further here on the road But this is what it is Okay, so we're just getting closer to the checkpoint itself starting to get pretty military looking lots of barbed wire I think this is like a bus depot for those Arab buses going to Going into the checkpoint itself, but you can actually see the houses of Bethlehem here in the center of my screen so beautiful olive groves here on The right completely looks kind of like almost uninhabited land And you can see all are all in the background That's all about them. You can actually even see The hotel there is Tantor. You can see in the distance that concrete structure there Skirting through the landscape. That's the separation barrier. There's a hotel here called the Tantor house hotel This is where the road by for case on the right you can visit Rachel's tomb and on the left You can go into Bethlehem itself. This is one of the signs you have these all over the West Bank It's letting you know that the Israeli citizens are not able to go into this this road leads a here into area A of the West Bank So it's not allowed for Israeli citizens So this road will be going into area A and you can see the traffic here going in that's probably an alternate route Into Bethlehem. Okay, this is as far as I'm going to go in pretty much almost in Bethlehem this as you can see in front of me here the separation barrier that is separated between Bethlehem and Jerusalem and you can see here the terminus of the checkpoint itself checkpoint three hundred here is on my left and There's still I'm as I said in a previous video. I'm absolutely amazed that you can actually walk all I've just continued This way from Jerusalem all the way out here and there's still two lanes of traffic So you can walk and if you're a pilgrim walk that wants to walk into Bethlehem. You just need to go through this terminus here Thank you very much for watching this video I hope it was interesting if you're interested in watching more videos I'm going to show you stuff on the ground in Jerusalem in Israel interesting things and please feel free to subscribe to Thank you very much