Free, downloadable walking tour audio for Jerusalem and/or Haifa?

Hi!

I'll be spending about three weeks in Israel; one week in Haifa (split between a promised couch and, likely, youth hostel) and two weeks in Jerusalem (staying with friends). My hours will be oddball, because I'll be working by remote, and on east coast time, some of the days I'm there.

One of my favorite things, in any city, is simply to walk around and soak up what I can see -- but I don't want to squander time, and would like to learn more about the history of sites I'll be walking past, especially in a place as historically rich as Jerusalem.

I know that for some cities, there are freely available audio guides which essentially let you listen to an informed guide as you walk, skipping to the next bit of information as you reach the things being explained. I've found one site that seems to be exactly what I'm looking for (free audio tours, sponsored by the Jerusalem Development authority) called JerusalemP3 (http://www.jerusalemp3.com/), but its registration seems to be broken, and apparently the free downloads are allowed only after successfully registering. (Under both Firefox and Safari, using Mac OS X 10.5, I can reach a place where I'm prompted to enter my email address, but clicking on the "Register" button below seems to have no effect.)

I've also found a few commercial (non-freely downloadable) tours, such as this one (http://www.acoustiguide.com/tours/JerusalemCityTour.htm) from Acoustiguide -- the FAQ to which doesn't even say how much it costs! I secretly suspect that "how much?" is the ultimate frequently asked question ;)

Does anyone know of any actually working / downloadable audio tours? If there are inexpensive commercial ones, I'm not completely opposed to paid-for commercial tours, but would prefer the jerusalemp3 ones both for cost and because they look like they cover appropriately sized chunks of the city.

Cheers,

timothy

I'd try the jerusalemmp3 site on ie if you have it - some websites seem to have a problem when translated from hebrew to english

Im not so sure about any others

Hope this helps

Thanks for the idea; I will find a computer with IE on it, or perhaps will try Opera first ;)

You'd think that a site as otherwise nice-looking as that one is would do QA with Mozilla at least as a smoke-test, though, eh?

Cheers,

timothy

Ye I know

Its the same with lots of Israeli websites - I really dont know why because they are often so cutting edge!

Have a good trip