This morning
our hiking began at 7:35am! It was a good time to start. You don’t want to be
caught out in the sun during the hours of 1-4pm. It can be very hot, especially
down in the Mak Tesh (the eroded crater like canyon). It was just Spencer,
Thomas and I this time. We went at a really good pace and we went to many cool
lookouts, through another dry riverbed, and our whole journey took us 3 ½
hours. We did it faster than they say it takes (that’s for slow tourists I
guess). So I got to accomplish something that is on my “list to do before I
die”. Hitchhiking! To get back to the hostel from this trail you have to
hitchhike. And just so you know, it’s a very safe, common and effective mode of
transportation in Israel. So many people do it here, it’s not illegal, its
accepted and so many people do. You can usually get rides right away since
people are used to picking up hitchhikers! So, I now cross that off my “list”.
We came back to give Spencer a hair cut! I
forgot to mention before we tired to use his clippers that we bought in Canada
with our converter, but it made this horrible noise, like the motor was going
100x faster than normal. We found out that the owner of the hostel Yosh, has
some clippers so we used them to cut Spencer’s hair (he also mentioned all we
need is a transformer, not a converter to use the clippers here). So I
successfully gave Spencer a hair cut, although it took a while since his hair
was really long- and so thick. After that he shaved, so he is all nice and
groomed now!
We had some vegetable scrambled eggs and
whatever leftovers we could scrounge up for lunch and took the majority of the
afternoon “off”. Doing nothing since the sun and dry heat really drains you. I
re-organized my big pack- getting kind of tired of living out of a bag!
Lots more people checked into the hostel-almost
a full house. I made pancakes for Spencer and I-not quite like home, but still
okay. We had savory ones with a cream cheese like spread, tomatoes, cukes, and
spices. Spencer bought some “nutella” which he also enjoyed for his dessert
pancakes.
We spent the rest of the night uploading
photos, getting ready to go to Jordan, and enjoying the people of the hostel!
Another country successfully visited! What a
cool country- a lot of must see spots, great people, amazing food and lots of
Biblical history.
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