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Nativity Church - Bethlehem, Israel
Nativity Church - BethlehemThe humility of that nativity is lost on Bethlehem's hulking Nativity Church (compare the size of the church to the men at the bottom left corner), which is actually a hodgepodge of buildings added to this site over the centuries by the various orders of the Catholic and Orthodox churches when they wielded power in what is now the West Bank. The result isn't exactly an eye pleaser. Travel Tip My taxi driver took a visibly circuitous route to drop me off at his "cousin's" gift shop at what turned out to be the rear of the Nativity Church and insisted that I "just look around" while he fetched a "free" tour guide for me despite my insistence on the lack of need for one. As suspected, the shop owner wasn't his cousin and the tour guide wasn't free. Those with less time than I had may wish to pinpoint to their taxi driver that your destination is the Nativity Church's front door, which is the little black door an inch in from the photo's bottom left corner.
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