Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Akko-old city-June 13th

On Saturday, Roni's family brought Alyssa and I to the old city in Akko and showed us around. It was awesome here are some pictures...

Alyssa and I with Roni's parents in Akko.

A view of the Mediterranean Sea (or Haifa bay...I do not know which one) from within the old Akko city.

A part of the wall that surrounded Akko that was in the water.

The old city and the port.
The Templars Tunnel, which was only recently found in like 1999.




Me in the templar's tunnel


Alyssa outside of Al Jezzar's temple.

Inside Al Jezzar's temple.

Alyssa outside of Roni's house. I think it is on the Gilon settlement.

north of Nahariya-Achziv/banana beach-June 12th

After hiking, Moran and Dikla dropped Alyssa and I off and we spent the afternoon at the beach. Pictures from the beach are below...
Pretty sunset


Alyssa, Roni and her friends







Bar'am Forest & Kibbutz Yiron-hiking and wine tasting-June 12th

For the second weekend, I went hiking in the Bar'am forest that is near the boarder of Lebanon and after hiking I went wine tasting for the first time.


Alyssa Roque and I at the beginning of the hike.





Dikla and Moran




The first clouds I saw in Israel (no joke). I went two weeks with seeing no clouds.



Walking in the forest. Lots of sunlight!





Wine tasting at the Galil Mountain Vineyard loacted in the Kibbutz Yiron. The four of us traveled together up to the place to hike and then to the winery.




Me infront of a great view of the vineyard.

Border of Israel and lebanon







Haifa-exploring-June 6th

During our first weekend in Israel, we not only went to the beach but on Saturday we also decided to go explore. We started our adventure in Central Carmel and ended up at the bottom of the mountain at the harbor. Below are pictures from our adventure...


Bahai Gardens (this picture does not do it justice) but we started our exploration above this building.



Arab living near the flea market in the city.


Round about in German Colony. Loved the architecture in this area of the city (ps. you will notice i am so far obsessed with the architecture on this trip)


A scene from where we started our exploring overlooking one side of Haifa. (Haifa is on a mountain so half the city is on one side of the mountain and the other half on the other side) You can see another citie, Akko's, shores in this picture.


This is an entrance to a house. The rest of the house goes down the mountain! So cool.

Haifa-Beach-June 5th

Here are some pictures of the first beach we (alyssa and I) went to in Israel....

Me chillen on the beach. After drying off from being in the water, I know better than to just lie in my bikini....
Pretty water :D...awesome waves for body surfing


Here is a video Alyssa took that gives a good idea of awesome the beach is...


Haifa-Technion-my living corders

Here are some pictures of my room and suite living...