Tulip Inn Tiberias

... Poriya, Upper Tiberius, and Kenneret. <br><br>We traveled west on 807 until Tzalmon where we headed on 65 south. At Tzomet Golani we took super highway 65 west to Tzomet Beit Rimon traveling south on 754 towards Nazareth. Nazareth was a very mountainous and populated town. As we approached, we soon found ourselves in its center. We took a right up a vertical road advertizing a lookout and &#8220;Nazareth Village&#8221;. Directly to ...

... a very modern looking mountain overlook. It looked just like one you would find on the Blue ridge Parkway. We stopped had an interesting discussion and bought some fruit and wonderful fresh cheese from a Druize man. Also Sarah had asked a tourist group stopped there if they knew where the lookout was and they did! It&#8217;s name has Har Bental and we were only minutes from it. When we got out of the car, I ...

(Day 16, Golan Heights, Wednesday) Breakfast on the deck overlooking the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)--doesn't get much better. Well, it would be nice to have some clean clothes, so Kevin and I headed into town to drop off our laundry, which we'll pick up tomorrow. <br><br>We traveled north to the Hula Nature Reserve, 800 acres of swampland saved from the 15,000 acres drained by Israel in the 1950s to make farmland. Keeping some distance between us and a group of ...

... draussen uebernachten muessen.<br><br>Heute ist also mein freier Tag. Geweckt wurde ich von einer landesweiten Alarmuebung, bei der so viele wie moeglich mitmachen sollten: Zivilisten, Schulen und Universitaeten in ihre Schutzraeume, Feuerwehren und Polizei abmarschbereit, Luftwaffe in die Luft und Soldaten raus aus ihren Kasernen. Laut Suraida passiert eine Uebung solchen Ausmasses aber nur sehr selten und war im heutigen Fall sogar die umfangreichste seit ...

... weitaus leichter und machte gleich nochmal so viel Spass, da man sich abschnittsweise einfach in Bach treiben lassen und von diversen Felsen in diversere tiefe Stellen des Flusses springen konnte. Das Ganze in voller Montur: T-Shirt, Badehose und Wanderstiefel. Der Ami Phil hatte zum Glueck eine wasserdichte Kamera und wird das ein oder andere Bild vom Ausflug hoffentlich auf Facebook hochladen. Unterm Strich bleibt zu sagen, dass das wohl das geilste war, was ich an ...

... in Jordan did. At night, we went to a hookah bar which reminded me of the Striped Room during Spring Weekend. In this one weekend, I might have inhaled more second-hand smoke than I have in my entire life, but so it is. Can't keep this intramural champion down. On the Saturday afternoon, we visited the nearby ruins of Umm Qeis, an ancient Roman city from around 200-300 B.C. From the book I recently finished, Caesar: Life of A Colossus, I know that this was ...

... There is also a dinosaur bones exhibit in Haifa, so in order to promote it &amp; generate excitement for it, they commisioned various artists to decorate ceramic dinosaurs and placed them around town. So, we took photos in front of every one we passed. One was dressed like a tourist, so since I had glasses &amp; a big bag &amp; the camera around my neck, that one was named Mom. (every time we saw it after that, the dinosaur was referred to as Mom). We then stopped at 3 ...

... and watched the people walk by as we ate a Falafel sandwich and cooled off with a soft drink. Then we walked the short distance to the traditional site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, both places now located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It is quite a chaotic place, built around 1100 on the site of a previous Christian church built by Constantine, which was itself built on the site of a Roman temple to Venus and Jupiter (which was supposed to ...

... plaza. In addition, members of the Women of the Wall have reported that their efforts to assemble in the women's section in the plaza in front of the Kotel have been met at various times with violent and abusive behavior from Haredi worshipers. Since its founding in 1989, Women of the Wall has fought a legal battle ...