Day #2

Today was a long day, I doubt that in the future I will stay up all night with everyone drinking again, but for the first time in my life I was of legal drinking age and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

After breakfast and leading up on the busses again we traveled to the Golan Heights in the northern corner of Israel. Once we arrived I discovered that we would be traveling up to the top by Jeep. This part of the trip was interesting as the driver of the jeep I was in seemed to be a bit “nuts”. Fortunately we didn’t get stuck when he went off the off road trail and through a rather deep mud puddle which took some doing to get out of. After the Jeep ride in which we got to take in the beauty of the country side we got out near the top and finished the last little bit of our journey on foot. At the top we could se bombed out bunkers and fields here and there that were surrounded with bright yellow warning signs. Apparently there are still a good number of live land-mines in these plots.

From here we traveled over to Mount Gamla, where historically a group of Jews held out against the Romans for a short period of time before being over-taken and forcefully removed. The scene from here was good, and I wish I could remember more about what our tour guide had to say but to be honest I wasn’t paying very much attention


CONTINUE TO DAY #3