Aqaba is Jordan’s popular holiday spot on the shores of the Red Sea. We had planned to spend 5 days here but extended it to a week, not because we wanted to lounge a bit longer on the beach but because we were tired of traveling. My many blog posts about Israel give you a bit of an idea about how much we experienced there. As much as we love sightseeing and experiencing new things it is actually quite exhausting – to continually be […]
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Sea of Galilee
Our 3 week housesit was up and it was time to leave Jerusalem, a city we had become so familiar with. We took a bus to Tiberias, located by the Sea of Galilee. We walked uphill from the bus station to our air bnb – which had sensational views. All we wanted to do was stay on the verandah and look out at the lake… known by locals as Kinneret or Lake Tiberias. Our host was a lovely Jewish woman who greeted us warmly, […]
Dead Sea, Masada & En Gedi
Our day trip from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea with stops at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Masada and the En Gedi National Park was simply brilliant! The bus took us from the busy city of Jerusalem through the tunnel under the Mount of Olives and suddenly into the Judean desert. We dropped quickly in altitude down to 423m below sea level at the Dead Sea. But before floating in the famous salty waters we had some exploring to do. We headed south […]
Fabulous Female CS hosts in Iran
We stayed with just two female Couchsurf hosts in Iran. Both were married, well educated, spoke excellent English and had one child each. Their husbands knew very little English but were both the loveliest people. We stayed just one night in Shahrebabak with Somaye, an industrial engineer. This was an exception to our usual 2 night minimum policy. Somaye was recommended to us by a couchsurfer from Bandar Abbas – one we didn’t stay with but who provided us with lots of helpful information. […]