7 TOURIST PITFALLS in JERUSALEM (Old City & Mount of Olives)

Jerusalem is a safe place to visit, but amid the holy sites are scammers who may try to rip you off.
Here are the main places where you need to be careful:

* Mount of Olives lookout - you will find yourself surrounded by pickpockets as you look out over the iconic scenery of the
Old City of Jerusalem.
* Outside Gethsemane Church - very aggressive sellers.
* As you walk down from the Jewish quarter to the Western Wall, people may approach you wanting
to tie a red string around your wrist, bless you, and then ask you for money.
* Restaurants next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that have menus without prices.
* Jaffa Gate, the main entrance for tourists to the Old City, is home to many illegal guides, as well as currency exchange places that will scam you.
* The area around station number 5 of the Via Dolorosa is a place you should be extra careful.
* Taxi drivers around Jaffa Gate that don't work with a meter.

The phone number of the police at Jaffa Gate: 02 - 6226150 or 972-2-6226150

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