with his chuh on pilgrimage from charloe, north carolina. when you have your feet in thed river jorn as we do now, what do you think about? >> it's a reminder of to whom we belong and of our own baptism. >> reporter: enjoy your time. it's magical.t but jus a half mile down the road, another holy site known as the land of the monasteries, church built not far from the river jordan but abandoned more than a half century ago. after the 1967 six-day war, israel lay several thousand land mines along the border with jordan as protection ags attacknd then shut the monasterie down. so this whole area was closed for decades. >> yeah. >> reporter: it was too dangerous. >> yes, too dangerous then and now. >> reporter: marcel aviv is heading up the effort to clear the mines. so when you clear the mines, ultimately the public will be able to come in and rediscovere plac like this. but nobody has set foot in here in all those years. >> yeah. it was a military -- closed mi >> reporter: for five decades, it would have been too dangerous to walk this.ery pa but now a whole new generation will be able