Tel Aviv, Israel Travel Blogs

Tel Aviv: Arrival Day!
May 15, 2008 (4 photos)

When the plane's tires touch ground in Tel Aviv, people clap their hands!  We've arrived!  It is a quick pass through immigration and customs, then a taxi to our Hotel Cinema in downtown Tel Aviv.  There is a warm welcome from the front desk ...

Day 3: Ayalon Institute, Weizmann Institute
May 18, 2008 (6 photos)

... of the station you want to leave from so you can specifically ask the taxi to take you there. There are 5 stations for Tel Aviv!  2) Before boarding the train, find out the station before your destination station, so you will be attuned and know when ...

The day of rest
Jan 19, 2008 (5 photos)

... as it was given by an English reporter.  A stroll on the beach promenade finally shows the lively culture that is Tel Aviv as there are traditional folk dancers, paddle ball players, and restaurants that are teaming with people.  The weather is ...

Day 2: Old Jaffa, Yeminite Quarter, Zappa Club
May 17, 2008 (4 photos)

... our way back to the Cinema Hotel.  Our heads hit the pillow and we are asleep!  Harvey reflects that, for a tourist, Tel Aviv is like the story of the blind men touching different parts of an elephant and thinking that they know what it is.& ...

Tel Aviv Weekend
Jan 24, 2008 (15 photos)

... and sharks to come), so I flash a smile at a cute security guard and she escorts me there and back in under 10 minutes!  Now I'll be able to defend myself on my bush walk... riiight! Sweet dreams from Tel Aviv... and good morning from South Africa!

Shabbat in Tel Aviv
Jan 18, 2008 (11 photos)

... up our Israeli soldiers (6 soldiers that will be with us for the remainder of the trip) and do an ice breaker in a local park in Tel Aviv.  All the soldiers are between 19 and 22 but act older than the 22-26 year old Americans.  It is extremely ...

Day 1: Promenade, Carmel Market, Neveh Tzedek
May 16, 2008 (6 photos)

... There is no way that he can drive to the hotel so we walk to meet him at his cousin's apartment.  We then navigate Tel Aviv traffic as this huge festival winds down.  Thank goodness Avi is driving.  His family is so warm and open.  It ...

Party in Tel Aviv
Sep 23, 2007 (24 photos)

... ;to give me the insight scoop. I met bunch of other people through them and we partied it off to the sunset. Tel Aviv has a great nightlife and social scene - from the open air café's on Rothschild avenue, through the beach front chill bars, to ...

Twelve Hours on a plane - wtih two kids
Sep 21, 2007 (1 photos)

Our flight leaves at 10:40, which means waking up at 05:00, showering, getting ready (don't forget the kids), saying goodbye and making it to the airport in time.   Since it was the day before Yom-Kippur there was little traffic, and we got to the ...

The Holy Land!
Oct 1, 2006 (5 photos)

... house, met the family and had Shakshuka a dish I had discovered from Isrealies in Thailand. We then went to a beach north of Tel Aviv. Jon then invited a bunch of his friends over for Taco night which is a delicay in a country that does not border Mexico ...

Israel Encore
Feb 1, 2005

... rainbow emcompassed the entirety of the site within its arc. Wow. Very, very lucky. After Beit She'an I bussed it back to Tel Aviv to get ready to head to India. I caught of with Yael and did all those necessary things like laundry, phone calls, ...

One Last party night
Nov 4, 2006 (7 photos)

We arrive back in Tel Aviv exhausted but were able to muster enough energy go out one last time. The rest of the night is a blur but thankfully Magnus (the norwigan Viking we picked up) took a million pictures, so I will let them do the talking, Oh yeah ...

Yom Kippur, Hashing and Sushi
Oct 6, 2006 (15 photos)

... them so that on Yom Kippur we could experience what every little Israeli kid does. It was awesome we rode all around Tel Aviv, downtown, on the freeway, anywhere we wanted. There really were no cars (except for police, ambulance and the odd driver) but ...

Into Israel
Sep 18, 2003

Just a quick note that I landed safe and soundly in Tel Aviv. I was just in time for the beautiful bright sun heavily ascending over the horizon spashing rays of intense peach hues through the spots of morning cloud. I am exhausted from the night flight so ...

Cats and guns
Sep 21, 2003 (7 photos)

... ) for my one size fits all "fat pants". Next we sampled a bunch of baked goods before heading up to watch the sunset over Tel Aviv. There are these tall towers all over which emit a bright green glowing light (look like lighthouses kind of) and I was ...

Suck and Blow
Sep 19, 2003 (9 photos)

... about Jewish culture. The flight was shorter than I thought but I still didn't get any sleep. So when I arrived into Tel Aviv, being a little disshelved and edgy mixed with not providing the customs officer with any clear straightforward answers, I landed ...

Bye bye Israel, Hello Jordan!
Oct 29, 2008

... get out of Israel".  I could not have been more blunt.  Ok, maybe I could have been.  As I had expected departing Tel Aviv was not going to be any easier than arriving.  My flight was at 7.30am so I planned to be at the airport at 5. ...

I'm a Red Sea pedestrian and proud of it!
Sep 16, 2007

... couldn't get around it to the water. Instead, I road my bike a little further down the coast and ended up at the Tel Aviv Port, where I'd never actually been. The port is gorgeous. Its a long strip of (rather expensive by my student standards) restaurants ...

Last day in the Holy Land
Jun 14, 2007 (5 photos)

... , befitting the place where heaven broke through to earth and Jesus met with Elijah and Moses.   On the drive to Tel Aviv, we passed through the plain where Armageddon is to take place and stopped at Caesarea Maritina, Herod's great port that ...

An Unexpected Break in Israel
Mar 25, 2009 (12 photos)

... University to see the Beth Hatefutsoth Diaspora Museum which chronicled the history of the Jewish people from ancient to modern times. Tel Aviv is brilliant, but after spending the day walking around seeing all the tourist sites, I had concluded that ...

Dealing with my parents
Jul 12, 2008

My mother spends most of her waking hours sitting in front of the TV watching Spanish soap operas. In between episodes she would cook a meal for my father (who is lying in a bed in the next room) and give orders to their Indian live-in aid (which they ...

Daily Life in Tel Aviv
Sep 4, 2007

... , in no particular order really, except one that might only make sense in my head, here we go. To get to downtown Tel Aviv from my neighborhood, Ramat Aviv, you basically have four options: taxi, sheirut (slightly larger, van-like taxi with no specific ...

Tel Aviv
Jan 31, 2007 (8 photos)

Like Bangkok, Tel Aviv is a city that we kept coming back to.  It is a modern city, not much antiquity.  It borders the Mediterranean and it is charming. Jaffa is the old Arib city to the south with narrow streets filled with artist studios and ...

On the plane
Oct 6, 2009 (2 photos)

got to the airport around 7 pm. over the last few days I couldnt escape the feeling that I'm supposed to be nervous. I said goodbye to my family and friends, bought a new  camera in the duty free and got on the plane. A fun game - guess where a ...

Shalom
Jun 16, 2007

Shalom everyone!  We have landed in Israel and we are knocked out!  We will update more later (and add the pictures tomorrow) but Leon's family is wonderful and they all had signs waiting for us at the airport - it was a really nice welcome!!! ...

Traveling to Tel Aviv
Nov 12, 2006 (6 photos)

... ~3hr later I had a pint of Guinness with my work mates, Ruth Barra, Bill Kebrdle and Laurent Geyer, and set off for Tel Aviv, Israel. Eleven hours later at 9:15AM IST, November 12th we were in the "cradle of civilization", a "war zone", the "holy land", ...

Monster update (sorry!)
Apr 17, 2006

... some bikes and get ready to go to Haifa tomorrow. Amazing. Much love to you all. UPDATE There was a bombing that killed 6 in Tel Aviv today at the old central bus station at around 1:30pm. I was not there and neither I nor any of my friends were ...

Last Ticket out of Israel
Dec 29, 2008 (5 photos)

... the helicopters in the sky and the large number of Israeli soldiers around the bus station, there are no signs of war in Tel Aviv...just a bunch of tourists hanging out on the beach. Yesterday I walked to the Air Canada office in Azrieli Center, a ...

Surviving the Shabbat
Dec 27, 2008 (6 photos)

... .                 In no time I was standing in a busy Tel Aviv bus station that was teeming with more Israeli soldiers and I thought maybe it was a long weekend.  I caught a ...

Ahhh settling back into my old room...
Sep 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... 't sound like a travelogue entry, but then going to Israel is for me always a mix of travel and personal history. I lived in this Tel Aviv apartment a few years back and it is always a good point from which to settle back into Tel Aviv. First I meet ...