“Family trip” they said…
“Come it will be fun” they said…
Well..
I said it 🙂
And it was great we slept the night on the shore of the Jordan River (it is a stream, but it the biggest we have in Israel 🙂 making a Potjiekos.
We wake up early early in the morning – in 9:00 (it Saturday, any hour before 11:00 is too early… 🙂 and went to a tour on top of the Hermon mountain. Well not the top of the mountain itself (it is in Lebanon), but the Israel highest point… that you can get if you are not a soldier. And even than you have to take a tour up there. The place called the Hills of fight where Israel Golani brigade soldiers fought to conquer back the Hermon from the Syrian.
Down we went to the Banias stream (Its Hebrew name is ‘Hermon’ stream ,but I use to call it Banias :-), which is one of the three streams that join to make the the Jordan river. A lovely finish to the Banias fall and its hanigng bridge was the Syrian Tank that sits in the water since 1967. Rumors say that the kids of the 5th grade from the near Kibbutz are responsible to bring the soldiers in it water and food :-)…(Of course I’m kidding… the are near the stream, they don’t need water :-).
Take Care
Gad
The Jordan river on which we parked in our family trip
The Hermon Ski resort turn into a site for extreme downhill route.
Making tea and top the Hermon, looking west to Israel and Lebanon.
French monk that came to visit enjoy the view.
Plants that managed to handle the wind and the cold, the last one is a kind of cherry tree that grow on the surface instead of up to the sky
Bugs that lives up here on the mountain
Top of funicular of the Hermon ski resort from a different angle you don’t usually see
The two tops on the right are Israel (the left is 2,224 m high near it the highest point in Israel at the elevation of 2236m :-), but the highest with Glacial is Syria
The real top of the Hermon mountain (2814m altitude)! What you see on it is a UN guarding point called Hermon Hotel.
A Bamba snack bag we took up to the mountain to see how it swells. The kid stole it from us and brought to his mother to open it for him 🙂
Panorama view east from the top of the Hermon mountain to Syria. See the border?… No? because it is only a virtual line down at the middle of the slope.
The Banias…
…the Banias fall.
…the Banias hanging bridge…
Just before I got back to Haifa, I caught those two birds with the Carmel mountain and the sunset rays as a background 🙂
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