Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Tel-Aviv
I will not talk to much about Tel-Aviv. We stayed there for 3 days. It is a nice clean town with a lot of beautiful people that go to the beach and party hard. It was very sunny and warm all the time. It has great large beaches with very fine white sand, a very [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Israel by david
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The Holy City
Jerusalem was definitely interesting. Rod and I visited the old city back and forth over three days and it is a very impressive place. Petra was a great place to visit but it is a dead city while old Jerusalem is still inhabited and that makes it so much more impressive. Some of the streets [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Interesting,Israel by david
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Where is the bank?
On Friday, I passed into Israel and made my way towards Jerusalem where I settled at a hostel in the old city. After going through the immigration officer, recovering your bag and going through custom, the first thing you need to do is usually get money in the local currency. This time, I did not need to do it [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Fun Stuff,Israel by david
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Floating like a cork
Today was a transition day as Rod and I were traveling from Petra to Amman. On our way, we stopped at Karak to visit a castle built by the crusaders. Not much to say about the castle as it is very comparable to castles built in France at the same period. The nice thing about [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Jordan by david
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Roaming in the streets of Petra
Since I started to organize my trip, Petra has been figuring high up on my list of places to see with Ancient Egypt. So it was with no lack of excitement that on my first day, I hiked the 30 minutes necessary to go from the entrance, through the famous Siq, to the even more [...]
