Gardens Ein Bokek
Ein Bokek Ein Bokek, Dead Sea Region, 86930, Israel
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On the way out
... that it makes every other tree/basketball player look like an amateur. With that in mind I decided to attack the tree armed with my new olive picking skills. I borrowed my mom's four step ladder (which I remember very vividly from my childhood), an empty crate, and a plastic rake generally used for picking olives. I stood the ladder in the soft earth and went to work. I spent probably 40 minutes plucking, raking, picking, pulling, and grunting. As I was picking ...
24 hours of non-stop adventure
... aching.
David arrived and said I wish I had taken a camel as well.. I told David that I wasn't continuing. l'll wait here for you. His answer was, wait don't go anywhere without me! He on the other hand is an excellent walker, living in San Francisco and walking all those hills. I began to get very cold,, I rented a camel blanket for $5------I didn't care how many camels had shared this blanket, it ...
Wedding
... all of the stores were air conditioned, so I started checking out the stores for my gift bag and card. The pharmacy and big, Costco-style grocery store didn't have them. The toy store didn't have them. Ultimately, I was getting thirsty, so I asked somebody, who suggested the Office Depot. I'm not big into shopping at stores we have in the
US while I'm in other countries, but the novelty of wandering semi-aimlessly through stores ...
Who's promised land? A day in Hebron.
... as its capital, and within this country are the Palestinian Territories of Gaza (on with Egyptian border and the Med Sea) and the West Bank, which is spread out all over the place from an area to the West of the Dead Sea/Jordanian border, with Ramallah serving as the Palestinian capital.
Are we all confused yet? Its about to get worse.
So the best I can work out, how they make this function in practice is that all of Israel is divided into ...
Two Sides to Every Story
... many times, maybe even destroyed and rebuilt. But the mosque/synagogue where the tombs of the patriarchs and matriarchs are, that building was built by Herod! And it’s still standing! It totally blows my mind...but what’s even weirder is that it only blows my mind when I actually think about what I’m seeing. When I was in France and we were touring castles and churches that were hundreds of years old, I feel like the oldness of ...



