Eyes Of A Child: West Bank

Hi! I'm Alexandra Booth and I'm 8 1/2 years old. I'm doing The Peace Cycle from Amman through the west bank and into Jerusalem. I wanted to do this to see what the people are like because my mum (Lauren Booth) has told me lots about it and that everyone there is so nice and she's always so happy when she talks about them.

My journey began in France and we had to take a train to go to England where I stayed with my Auntie & uncle for one night. We had to leave at 9:30 in the morning to get a train to the airport but something happened on the train we meant to go on, I don't know what it was but they said it was delayed so then we had to take an underground train that took nearly two hours. When we inally got to the airport we were in a rush.

We got to wait in a really cool room, a VIP room because my mum's a journalist. We were watching scrubs and lost track of time and had to rush to board our plane. It took 5 hours to get to Amman & there was a power cut at one moment while we were in the air but then everything went back to normal. I didn't even sleep for 5 seconds.

When we landed in Amman, the airport wasn't busy like it is in london. We got our luggage and then saw a man holding a sign with Peace Cycle on it and we went with him into his van and he drove us to a hotel and we had some dinner in our rooms because we were so tired and I ate it in bed.

The next morning we got up at 8:30AM and after breakfast we hopped into a taxi and went to the commodore hotel. We put our luggage in the room and near lunch time we went on a tour of Petra. We went around the ancient city but first I got to ride a donkey and on the way back I rode a camel named Bob Marley and it was amazing because the camel started running, it was so funny! Once we finished our tour we went back to Commodore hotel in Amman where I got to meet all the other cyclists and I thought they were all really nice and it made me really excited.

NOW THE JOURNEY BEGINS...