Our Trip to
Here’s a map that Marc put together showing the
places we visited. Two of the sites listed
on the map didn’t get visited: Tiberias (we had the
opportunity to visit Tiberias after dinner on day 3,
but passed) and Be’er Sheva
(itinerary was changed to skip it). Mamshit is where we rode camels. Zefat is an
alternative spelling for Safat.
We started in Tel Aviv, went up the coast through Caesaria and
Here’s my Journal of what we did, complete with pictures:
The flight to
Tel Aviv (Independence Hall, the place where Itzhak Rabin was murdered), Caesaria,
Jeep tour of the Galilee, Safat
(Sephardic and Ashenazic synagogues), the raft trip
down the
The kibbutz tour and the Yigal Allon Center (with the Jesus boat), the tank, Bet Shean (more ruins), tree planting in the Jewish National Forest, Mt. Scopus, dinner in Jerusalem with cousins Stuart and Marci and kids, walking around Jerusalem after dinner
The archeological dig and the bullet factory, dinner at
the
Visiting Miri and Orly (and kids) in Herzelia,
visiting David in Tel Aviv, dinner in
Climbing
Eilat: aquarium, snorkeling, dinner cruise
Maktesh Ramon crater, S’de Boker (Ben Gurion’s home), dinner in
Jerusalem: the cancer hospice, Israeli Museum, shopping, services, dinner at the King David Hotel
Jerusalem, the Fuchsberg center, visiting David in Tel Aviv, the flight home, getting McDonald’s for the kids, and epilogue