20 Nov 2022
We booked an english guide which is 30$ extra per person. In practice this means you still go with a Russian group where the guide is speaking Russian on the bus and you miss around 3 hours of explanation then you get an english speaking guide in Betlehem (which was a bit into conspiracy theories). So you pay more to get less.
Because of Russian status we had to wait on the border for 4 hours to get through. Our bus also broke somewhere in the middle as such we started at 11pm and got back 3am the next day. There was also not a lot of time at the dead sea. Also the included meal with free drink did not actually include the free drink.