We spent most of our day today at Golan Heights, on the border of Israel, Syria and Lebanon. It felt kind of weird to look across over a hill and know that we were looking at a different country. It was crazy to learn how the people of Golan Heights, who consider themselves Syrian, are unable to cross over the valley we were looking at, into Syria. Many of them have family across the border that they are not able to visit. The area between the two ‘countries’ is full of land mines, as is much of the area in Golan Heights. You can be certain that we were very careful where we walked!!
From Golan Heights we travelled to the Sea of Galilee, where we had planned to go on a boat cruise. Unfortunately the boat company messed us around and we had to cancel. This allowed for some shopping time and time in the Old City of Nazareth.
We are having an early night tonight as we prepare for our last two days, which will be in Tel Aviv. Einav, a 2004 Action Partner, has planned lots of activities for us – should be interesting!
The Sea of Galilee
Mary, Mussa and Eric - picking apples
Looking at Syria across the border
Landmine sign
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