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Making my own souvenirs: three days in the Holy Land

[Guest post by Jonatan Alcina Segura in Israel and Jordan]

 I can’t choose when I should travel, that’s a matter of low-cost airlines and their low prices. They decided this time that I go to the Holy Land. In January, I visited Israel and the neighbouring country of Jordan. My travel had a duration of three days, plus a fourth day to go back home. I began in Eilat, the Israeli Red Sea shore. Everything was red due to clouds. It was Friday. As the sun set the Holy Shabbat began (above).

The second day I was very excited because I could finally know the Dead Sea, I could float like a boat. I could know the city of Jerusalem too. The sun of the Middle East finally came and said hello to me through the bus windows, as I tried to sleep on the way. The bus stopped for 20 minutes and I began to draw the desert (above).

Full of energy due to the salt of the Dead Sea and after visiting the city of Jerusalem with the guide, I thought that I should find my own moment for sketching. The beginning was the Wailing Wall and the fabulous Golden Mosque (above). At that time a cat came to me and wanted to sleep on my legs while I was painting. I thought that it was dirty and the animal might be full of fleas, but it was so warm that I let him stay.

After visiting the city, I felt like a Templar who left the holy city to go back to dark Europe. I had all I could do to enjoy the amazing sights of walls, towers and gates. I had no time to finish the watercolour of the Jaffa Gate (below), so I did it at the hotel.

The next day I went very early to Jordan because I wanted to visit Petra. The bus stopped 20 minutes at a souvenir shop in the middle of the desert. But I didn’t want to buy souvenirs, I wanted to make my own souvenirs and do a fast sketch. I was so happy with my sketch (below) of the King's Highway.

After an interesting trip through the desert, we arrived at Petra (below). I always say that we – the urban sketchers – haven’t invented anything.  But when I see such magnificent landscapes I feel like a romantic traveler, an authentic David Roberts…what is life without a little bit of emotions.

The tour guide gave me some free time to hunt a pair of sketches (below). Suddenly a lot of children came to me. They are “working” there, trying to sell souvenirs and get some money to live. But that day they were really brazen with the tourists, with me too. They didn't give me a free minute. They always were with me to speak, to play…but I wanted only to draw. I couldn’t sketch anything good. I felt under stress. I changed my place to find another bigger place, perhaps free of the children…but they came and began to drive me crazy with their fingers in my watercolours, to take my things… but then I had good luck and a Bedouin came to rescue me.

The trip was short but intense. I still had a lot to draw. I did my last sketch from the Ovda Airport (below), an arid landscape of desert to say goodbye.

Jonatan Alcina Segura is an archaeologist and designer from Cadiz, Spain, now based in Freiburg, Germany. He is a correspondent for Urban Sketchers Spain. You can see more of Jonatan’s sketches on his blog and on Flickr.

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