Tel Aviv Hostels - Reviews and Rates

This "relaxing into joy" journey/practice that I'm on seems to be taking me into "dark" places; I keep finding more and more things that I 'make wrong' (judge, complain, have a conflict with) and then finding myself fight to dear life on why is the "There's nothing wrong" guideline I've adopted to my life simply does not apply here and that what...

Every time we travel we learn something new. Sometimes, we learn lessons that last a lifetime. Sometimes we learn things about a people and a place that are better kept hidden from the world. Such is the case on this trip. The photo attached here is proof that the Levantines* simply do not queue. You can't really see it as it was in this photo b...

We pick 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 interesting to get a different point of view and to talk to these kids about how different our l...

(Traveler's pub in Tel Aviv beach) It is my second day in Tel Aviv. I am drinking the local Israeli beer Goldstar, which is really good, watching the sun slowly set over the beach. Yesterday I wandered toward a bazaar north of central Tel Aviv. On the way I picked up a shawarma. It wasn't the greatest I've had but shawarma and falafel are a bill...

We arrived Saturday 12/24 in Tel Aviv. We did not do much that day but get lost in the dark, grab some food, and go to sleep. We walked around in the rain (and sometime hail) on Sunday. That was the worst weather day, so things go much better during the week. We caught a movie during some heavy rain times. Our hotel was a block from the beach an...

At 10AM we visited Independence Hall in Tel Aviv and viewed the room where Israel gained its independence. It is the equivalent to Independence Hall in Philadelphia We spent the rest of the day relaxing by the pool at the hotel.