Prima Tiberias

... He offered us a ride and we hopped on.<br>I have only ever hitched a ride once before in my life. The first time was also in Israel. I would never, EVER hitch a ride anywhere else in the world.<br>I tell the driver that I was visiting my old base here and he says "Chatmar 228?" Yes! I forgot its number! He served somewhere nearby. Nice.<br>We get to the beach and there's mostly rocks and dirt but it's really pretty. The other side of the sea is Jordan, which gives us a lovely view. The ...

... the Mount of Beatitudes we decide to stop. Here we found a beautiful basalt stone chapel and saw the hillside where Yeshua had made His "Sermon on the Mount" Matthew 5. This is one fairly undisputed site. It was very peaceful and calm here with a beautiful view of the rural countryside gradually making its way to the Sea of Galilee. Directly after leaving we saw a sign for Korazim. We ended up driving ...

... jk. It was very weird though. <br>Friday morning we woke early with the sunlight. Dave was in charge of breakfast and made eggs with rice and cheese. It was scrumdeliumptous. We packed up camp and headed to Yehudi-ya to do a hike to a water hole. We geared up ... kind of, and set off for a 30 minute hike. I say kind of, because I decided to wear my croc sandals, and another of the guys decided to wear five year old sandals on this hike. We all had camelbacks ...

... die frisches Wasser in einen grossen Tuempel sprudeln lassen und als Mischung zwischen Freibad und Baggersee fungieren. Normalerweise sind die zwar heiss, an diesem Tag (36 Grad im Schatten) von der Temperatur her aber genau richtig. Um die Mittagszeit folgte ein fettes Barbeque, bei dessen Umfang sogar der Calli satt geworden waere. Darueber hinaus war die Stimmung perfekt und Maoz hat sich einmal mehr als mein Traum-Chef herausgestellt. Er hat einfach ein ...

... on the Syrian border. We stopped at a quiet little outdoor cafe in Qazrim and had lunch. As we started coming down from the high country (maybe around 1100 ft), driving back down toward the Sea of Galilee, we came across a sign that said "sea level", and the lake was still downhill from us. That's because the Sea of Galilee is 600 ft below sea level. Kinda interesting. We drove around the lake again ...

... of the Cosmos right now, which among other things, deals with space and time and relativity and all that stuff. It describes how, though negligible by the standards of everyday life, time slows down when an object speeds up (to put it simply)--more so when talking about light-speed travel. Anyway, I feel like that theory could be modified to include that time travels faster when living abroad for one year after graduating from college and preparing for medical school.

Was the last blog from Jerusalem? Yes? Good. We'll continue from then, then. So we left jerusalem early on the morning of the 24th fairly early (to early for fish man to be out:)) &lt;--this is 1 smiley and a close bracket not a double chinnned smiley, and headed to the bus station where we caught ourselves a bus to Ramallah. Ramallah is in the West Bank quite near the wall. it was distinctly poorer than jerusalem which apart from the old city is a very modern and effluent ...

... We saw water areas, different colored soil and crops areas (brown, green, yellow, in farmland type squares. Just gorgeous. There was also a church there with some older excavations. It was a time consuming ride &amp; I don't know if I would do it again, but it was worth it that one time, since we were in the area anyway &amp; have many days in Haifa. Of course, this may not be true for Christians, as I'm sure the church would interest them as well. As we were leaving ...

... had to cut out a lot of our planned activities. We did visit a Palestinian School. The Principal spoke to us along with 2 students. It was very interesting to hear their views on things, especially the kids. The Arab Muslims conquered the land from the Christians Byzantines. In the beginning of the 7th century, the land was ...

... top of a hill, the castle of Ajloun, Qalaat ar-Rabad. Its one of the best preserved example of medieval Arabian military architecture. The castle was built in 1184/5. Qalaat ar-Rabad is a popular destination. Nevertheless you can explore the castle by yourself. So don't forget your flashlight. After the lunch near Jerash, we went to the ruins of Gerasa for the whole afternoon. There are only a few city of ruins from the 1st ...