Saturday, June 30, 2007

Hiking to Nimrod

After an early wakeup relative to regular weekends, I drove with Ashok and Michelle (two colleagues on temporary allocation in Haifa) to Mt Hermon area, in the northernmost part of Israel. We decided to hike from the Jordan springs of Banias up to the Nimrod fortress despite comments that it would be way too hot to leave the shade.



We suffered quite a bit from the heat on our way up (in the 40s under 1pm sun)and from the various spiky things attacking us along the path, but the hike was worth it. We finished our long, tiring and hot day in a very nice restaurant called The Witch's Cauldron and the Milkman, and rested there for a few hours with great food.



We took the Golan heights road on the way back instead of the Jordan Valley and stopped at a few observation points to watch the scenery and ended up visiting half abandoned Syrian bunkers from the 60s. I refrained from taking pictures from the bunkers as there was modern equipment around and we were not really sure we actually were allowed to drive up there on that gravel road (we ignored the various signs in Hebrew). A gallery of pictures can found at the usual place ;).

6 comments:

Kelvin said...

Kia Ora (Hello) from down under in New Zealand. I was searching the blog world when your blog popped up. You have some great photos worth sharing, so I have mentioned your blog @ #292 on my blog
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Anonymous said...

Et le parking ?
Y avait un gardien ?

:D

fefe said...

Yep there was a parking and it was also closing at 4pm but the guardian told us before !

Hi, Kelvin. Nice to meet you, happy you appreciate the pictures here. You look like a real blog addict :).

Anonymous said...

t'es pas passé par dessus la grille ce coup-ci ?!?

fefe said...

Pas eu besoin ! Mais c'etait la premiere fois que je payais l'entree en au moins 3 visites ;)

Anonymous said...

You have posted some lovely pictures.These pictures are filled with life and soul.Please post some more so that all those who cannot make it to this place can have a taste of it.Good job mate.