 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here again for today's walk and giving the trail the Jerusalem trail another shot my Aspiration here is to do a section of the trail from the Mount Zion Hotel to the Ainsorium Valley, so in the last video. I unfortunately didn't have a Good map available, and I thought the trail would be better marked than it was fortunately since then I've got a very few very detailed maps From other height from hikers and I can't call myself the hiker yet. I'm a rookie but from real hikers So I have a great app on my phone So there should be no ambiguity this time So it's going to be the same walk as I did for the last one What I'm going to be doing here is turning right at the cinema tech Which is a starting point for one of the points that the Jerusalem hike goes on going back down into the Into the valley the Inam Valley and this time where he went wrong the last day or where he gave up on the trail is That basically just before you go into the village of Siloan, which is a Palestinian village you actually go on that road the upper trail Ends Where there's a church and at that point the trail kind of veers into the village a little bit then emerges on the valley That's thing. I'm going to take us into the other side of the valley that will be wrapping Easter in the old city Then we'll be passing by abs abshalon's pillar. He had abshalon Following that we're going to need to come in off that valley Because it's not contiguous Here's the Jerusalem trail marker again Here's the sign for the cinema tech so it's not contiguous so therefore we're going to need to basically Come in Get on to the road and Then skirt round Weather conditions today are I feel like an airline airline pilot or something announcing announcing the passengers This on this particular day tomorrow There's supposed to be snow in Jerusalem, which is super exciting. I'm going to be getting video if that does occur Unlike the last day made this video. There isn't rain forecast today. Although those skies look a little bit dark to me But in any venture be nice and dry I'm doing today's hike at about 2 30 p.m. Israel time so Yeah, we shouldn't get dark that's the trail marker for That I observed the last time I'm going to come down into the valley now. So we're going into Hinnom Valley I'm not going to do commentary all the way The estimated walking time According to the app I'm using I'm using two apps today. I'm using GPX viewer and I'm using footpath app Says it's about an hour and 15 from this point probably an hour So it's gonna be about a two hour two hours two and a half hours of walking for me Which is a decent stretch of the legs So see how far you get this time in I make it all the way out and back for whatever reason but Another day walk the least and hopefully see some more interesting Jerusalem scenery So we're coming out as before into Hinnom Valley. This is where the cinema tech is just kind of an art Place and check house as I mentioned in my last video. It's like a diplomatic mission of sorts Open by the Czech Republic And we're coming down now into the garden this is listed on the on the map as Zurich garden for its last part and As he said in my last video the Jerusalem Municipality sometimes has food trucks going on up here. I'm just gonna take out my Absid there's absolutely no Questions about the route this time Okay So for this part of the Jerusalem trail I corrected my Figures In the last time I put up a video on this YouTube channel just showing the Trail as I got it from a hiker I'm showing the GPX file and how exactly it works starting from Evan's appear and then looping its way partially going through city streets in Jerusalem Partially going through Here I'm on the trail now Partially going through Valley Then it loops back through urban Jerusalem, and then it follows the course of highway one Which is the main road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv before winding up in Sataf. It's a point-to-point Like I'm gonna go down here into the into the valley So I don't want to repeat everything I said in the last video, but the significance of this Particular valley. I'm now going through is that the Hinnom Valley was the biblical Hell on earth where there was child sacrifices to a deity Called Malik going on here, which is pretty crazy to think about So what he showed in the last video was me Going into the new biblical park I have a big guy I went in there for a little bit checked out some of their cool Ancient olive presses and whatnot. So I'm not going to do that again in this video Because I want to make a bit more Progress than they did last time. So what I'm going to do instead is actually I'm gonna get out of this park in a minute I'm gonna continue down on Guy Ben Hinnom Street. I'm also not gonna go up If you want to see the views from these hills on the left, which are pretty spectacular Check out the last video. I kind of walked up these little treks So that is Abu Tor on the right where those cars are coming from and as I mentioned There is a rock climbing face here for those who are interested in such pursuits We are gonna stay on the trail today So this is obviously just a portion of the trail. I'm not starting from the start. I'm not ending at the end It's not the complete Jerusalem trail. I just got the map in the in the post today So if you are looking for a map for the Jerusalem trail, it's from a company called chvil net and It's a you know physical hard copy map and that GPX file that I keep mentioning was available online There is an app hiking up here called a moon A mood and then I didn't find it so reliable So what I've done here is just loaded that GPX into GPX viewer app So you might have more success with that or you can import GPX files into Google Maps another option so that's the entrance to the parking guy Which as I mentioned, I'm not going through because it complicates the route a bit Unfortunately, that's only a very recent thing If that complex wasn't there and had its perimeter You would just continue straight through What I will do is go through The valley a little bit more. These are the trail the tracks I mentioned. Let's go up the hill. They're really interesting I'm actually going to pop on a mask In a second just because I really hate Breathing in car exhaust fumes Which I'm going to be doing here because the road's so close um So it might get a little bit muffled shortly At this point if you're doing the trail, you've got a few options. You can continue On that road. This is Guy Ben Hinom Street Or after the perimeter you can loop into the valley here. That's I guess more More trail like what I did the last day was I actually went up on this Elevated road here on the right. That's not technically on the trail Um, and I ended up I think wandering into some guy's farm. There was like a bunch of um goats Appeared out in order with the shepherd. So that was pretty weird um so This is leading us now into the village of Siloan Which is a um, Palestinian neighborhood Um, I believe you can take the trek or I don't see any reason why you couldn't cut through the village itself Which is probably what I'm going to do Uh shortly So the trail is definitely I'm looking here With my still underpaired phone at the navigation app and it's saying It's by 20 meters to the right of me. So You can see there is that trek through the valley itself I'm going to stick with the road just for a little bit more What we're doing now is we're traveling Kind of parallel to the southern wall of the old city And we're looping round Mount Zion here. So that's what's going on That's why the trail is taking us Into and around Siloan here I'm going to just pop in here to the valley for a bit of variety So here's one of the points you can just step into it And uh, so now we're in As I mentioned in the last time there's some kind of controversy about the whole area here The biblical park and you know that this was private land and all that kind of stuff. So um I linked to that in my last video the times of Israel article about this So if you're interested in reading about that check it out. I think I continue it seems like there's always traffic Running down this road. It's the main entrance. One of the entrances to Siloan we're going to get to where this the You know valley actually ends shortly because it's going to get to a church You know can be able to pass through at that point So that's what all these houses are in front of me. It's the village and um From the village we're going to emerge to I did a video of it from above. There's like this kind of road And uh, then you can get onto the trail Going to and passing as I mentioned the pillar of Avshalom So I've just crossed Guy Ben Heenom street until the opposite side of traffic. Looks like they're still doing those road works unfortunately So this is where I got to the last time as you can see there's just kind of a church here So if you are taking the valley You're going to have to come onto the road at this point here Going into Siloan. This is where I gave up the last day. So we're now Working new ground on the hike so to speak I'm going to just take the Gimbal off the selfie stick just to be a little bit less conspicuous as I do this part of the journey and because it's kind of a Shortly going to be pretty difficult to navigate here. There's like barely any footpath You can see I think that's the trail marker again the blue and the white So this is really where you are supposed to be going The Hebrew sources to mention like the Israeli hiking websites that you know, this is a bit Perhaps risky going to this kind of a neighborhood. So Obviously just be aware. It looks like there's another road going through that way I'm going to check the map now to see where I'm going exactly my phone Okay, I'm going to be following this road here left Hopefully it's possible to make a couple of wrong turns. That looks like the entrance to the village there in front of me Or at least the construction site that they have going on This is kind of screwing around sort of to an extent I'm just going to put on the mask here because uh It's pretty full of construction dust here this this site I have asthma. So just to kind of So they don't ingest too much dust So we're now in the village Hopefully this road will take us to the continuation of this trail pretty chaotic place to be the Morix I think I'll be finding a different way back here. It's like chaotic Ah, so you was uh, Jordanian license plates pretty cool My hope is at some point here. It's going to be kind of semi obvious How do you get to the valley? We're just going through Uh, so on here still this road I know leads up to the um Old city I'm just kind of uh Following directions here sort of intuitively Ah, the map's loading. So we're on the right road still apparently Pool of Siloam here is on the left See it's signposted We're gonna be passing there is a guy spring you can hear some water So if my directions are accurate we should Come out shortly from the village Hey, looking good so far. I think I've uh Guessed this right On the left there you can see It's the walls of the old city above so we're going to be coming now into the into the valley But this road should continue on to And at the pillar I know where I am because I've seen this exact gate in school I think it's like the playground. I've seen it from above. So Once we're through this gate, we should be straight out It's written here Kings Valley Trail and Abshalon tool Orientation map looks like we're still on the right path We just come up to Abshalon's pillar now so We're gonna have to come out now From the valley we're on the road out of it Then according to the trail map There's a way to get back in We're gonna have to circumvent the church though So as you can see We've gone around Mount Zion Just in the space of time you've been walking already That's those are now the eastern Walls of the old city The ones that were visible from the start of the trail from the hit-on valley Those were the southern walls. So we've really worked our way around Now this is going to be interesting because I'm not exactly sure Where this road into the next part of the valley is Uh, but we will figure that out looks on the map. You just have to go around Just to the right of the tomb of the Virgin And it's a right meandering road Apparently to lead into the valley. So I'll see if See if it can be done Pretty amazing views here over the old city It's an observation point right here So this church has grounds that I was trying to figure out the last time looked to be blocked off They have like a private walled garden here. Oh gosh. I've got some sweat on my eyes I'm just like my eyes are kind of bit burning Uh, it looks like that is indeed Still the case You that's part of there That's part of their garden I've checked on the map We'll be able to get out to the valley there Let's see maybe going up this road Ah continuation of the king's valley trail So there you go signpost Another signpost saying Keep going up Which is not what the map is saying So we'll see if this actually Tastes as though this would make sense kind of going around the church One of several churches Ah, but let's see All nations cafe Church grounds Steeple Getting excited the valley there on the left Ah, okay. See our trail marker So I think it's going to be up here See the blue and white trail marker Oh, I hear my arch nemesis Dog First side of the dog. I'm turning back So it's saying turn left continuation of the king's valley trail Maslul Emek Amalek So it looks like you can't really get into At least that part of it So if it was looking to do this I take back what I said about it being poorly marked decently marked But in a couple of points it's definitely a bit confusing this particular Ah Part it wasn't really Marked I just had to kind of Use logic and it looks like I'm back on the trail now So just in a couple of places like also coming into salon either have to use your brain or Whatever I never knew this existed is incredible. I don't think it's saying the same thing here This means See what our map says All right for this particular section The next challenge I'm going to come back in a group because uh I don't think this is a good I don't think in general it's a great idea to be doing these kind of hikes alone Uh And especially going through a big valley like that. So I'm going to uh Do your turn around here made a bit more progress today and uh I think I'll join a hiking expedition to take this uh Takes it to the next level And take this take this trail further Thank you guys for watching Feel free to subscribe as always To receive more videos