After three months stuck in Cyprus, TUS AIRLINES offered us freeflight tickets to Israel. It is also called the "Holy Land" by religious people who -as choice- shed tears on the tomb of Christ, embrace the Wailing Wall or jostle in the narrow streets to the golden dome of the mosque of Jerusalem.

I see it more as a land of conflict, banalisation of violence and racism. Palestinians who did not feel respected and armed Israelis seemed to live in peace. In Jerusalem, I discovered that the internal conflict with the ultra-Orthodox Jews affected them more. Each day I discovered a little more the incoherence of a society more attached to the "holy books" than to humans, tense on the past to better sacrifice the future.

Israël and Palestinia are two opposite and very intersting countries. After five weeks, we crossed the northern landborder to continue this hitchhiking world tour in Jordan.

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What you should know if you travel there :

➡ Customs officers do not stamp the passport! They print a small card valid for 3 months, to keep for the duration of the stay. So there will be no record of your stay in Israel on your passport and no problem to travel to ennemies countries of Israel.

➡ Customs officers do not question everyone! When I arrived and when I left, they just asked me what was my next destination and did not even check the pages of my passport.

➡ It is possible to travel to Israel with an Iranian visa and without interrogation (since they did not check the pages of my passport)

➡ To travel to Palestine, you only need to have an Israeli visa and present your passport at the checkpoints. It is better not to mention that you have been in Palestine when you leave Israel. With my boyfriend, we agreed on a fake  itinerary in case they would ask questions about our schedul, but in the end, we did not asked anything.

➡ Traveling in Palestine is not dangerous for foreigners! (except Gaza) The Palestinians are happy to see rare tourists and make it a point of honor to give a good image of Palestine. You will hear many "welcome" in the streets.

➡ In Jordan, the entrance/ exit stamp can be printed on a separate paper if you ask the customs officer. In this case, there will be no record of your stay in Jordan in your passport or your entry / exit from Israel. If you enter Jordan via the southern border, the Jordanian visa is free!

➡ In Egypt, the entry and exit stamps are printed on the passport. We did not want to have an entry stamp "Taba" (proof that we were in Israel before), so we went to Jordan and then hitched a boat to Egypt. This detour was in fact useless because the Sudanese Embassy in Cairo issues visas to those who have passports with the stamp "Taba". In theory, Sudan denies visitors to Israel but in practice, embassy employees do not look in detail at passports.