Having always been very interested in history, I had been looking forward to my trip to Jerusalem for months. It is hard to believe that it has finally happened, and the experience has certainly not disappointed me. Jerusalem is not only the Holy City of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths; it is also a place where time literally seems to have stood still. On many trips to other areas of the world, I was a bit saddened to simply see what amount to replicas of ancient and historic buildings. This was certainly not the case in Jerusalem. I walked down cobblestone streets that really made me feel like I had gone back thousands of years in time. Many of the shops and homes that I had the privilege of seeing were ancient and historic .
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