Who says religious gals can't have fun? I am on a program of the religious persuasion. Been here for two weeks. No complaints. It's lots of fun (clean fun mind you) and I've certainly learned a great deal about my own Hebrew persuasions.
This past week we went to the Tzafon (the North) on a super-excursion to see all the best sites there. First we traveled to the east of the West Bank on highway 90, around Jericho (first we stopped in a Jewish town to catch the amazing view) and along the border of Jordan. It seems Israelis think hugging the Jordanian border is safer than creeping along the West Bank border. Then we tramped through a muddy hilltop trail overlooking the fertile Jordan valley. Date palms spread thick like weeds across the valley floor, and the land is patched from foothill to foothill with banana trees, eggplants, lettuce and other legumes.
No trip to Israel would be complete without an outing to a kibbutz (or moshav or whatever they be called these days). But this one was special. Kibbutz Dagim, as it is named, has some Japanese Christians living there, and they've created a nice little home for themselves on the edge of the compound complete with a koi pond.
The next day, we went boating on the Kineret and that's where all the magic happened. The day ended with a nice stroll through the artist's colony of Tsfat and a long ride home.
