Visit to Western Wall

Today, May 11th, we visited the famous "wailing wall" - it's now referred to as the Western Wall. It's the only wall left of Solomon's 1st Temple after the 2nd Temple (which was built on top of the 1st) was totally destroyed. From the plaza area you don't really see the gold dome (Dome of the Rock) that's visible in the picture (inserted in one of the first blog posts). We walked almost up to the Wall, and noticed many people pushing small written notes into grooves between the stones of the wall. There were many devout men and women praying at the wall at their designated area. We then walked thru some of the Old City, but most of the markets had closed down. I'm sure we'll visit there again.