Royal Tulip Eilat
North Shore Eilat, 88000, Israel
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Africa Review
... met along the way who might be able to have an opinion on my opinions to do a mini review of my time in Africa and sum up the highs and lows of half a year in the third world, a sort of Richard List of Africa. I am not going to suggest for one moment that I will tell all or even go to an emotional level of what I have learned in my time, more a tabloid hit list of hits and misses for everyone to enjoy. So here goes.
Best Country.
Without a doubt the best place ...
It's Hookah Time
... blazed red, water in the bottom glass gurguled and impressive clouds of smoke came out of our guy's nose and mouth. Easy.
Our turn. Puff away I did and it was shockingly calm and I could taste the mint, a good choice. You don't inhale, just do it Bill Clinton style, and blow it out. There was a bit of JV coughing and my smoke was sad and ridiculous compared to our dragon teacher. Mary was next and looked quite cool as she tilt her head back to ...
Ahh the Desert and the beach
... was the only one there. It was nice and relaxing and I finally finished the last book in the 'girl with the dragon tattoo' series. It was excellent by the way That evening I went for my first sit down dinner since arriving in Israel and even enjoyed a glass of wine. My splurge. Today I am making my journey back up north. I started the morning on a 5 hour bus ride to Tel Aviv. Again I felt with the frustrations of traveling through Israel. No one spoke ...
Worthless without a man
... cause it was almost 4 and I hadn’t eaten anything all day. Either way, I ate it. It was interesting.
Dragging out my laptop I played with my photos, updated my blog, and attempted to waste the rest of the day. My room was a private and literally the size of a closet with just enough for the bed, a door at the end to get in, and a door at the head to the bathroom. The window was into the lobby so there was no air. I kept getting yelled at to close my ...
Into the desert
... was wet, and probably had small lakes so it was well populated. As the desert dried out the people became more nomadic, adopting behaviour and dress like today's Bedouin. The practise of petroglyphs was continued into the Nabatean era (they also built temples here) who, as a literate society, added simple writing to their carvings.
We found the carvings along the corner of a mountain, on the side of the rock. Steve walked up to the top of the hill while I watched the ants ...



