Israel

Crossing back to Israel- Crossing Border Israel to Egypt, Part 2 of 3 Chaya and I were now in a predicament — a Catch-22 on the global chessboard of travel: We were refused entry to Egypt — we could not move forward. We were required to recross into Israel to get an Egyptian visa with [...]

Preparation for Egyptian Hustlers Egypt, Egypt, Egypt! We were Egypt bound as we dropped off the key to our room with the hotel mafia man in Eilat. We were excited . . . though apprehensive. The stipulation behind getting a reduced priced room in Eilat was based upon us staying for two nights, when we [...]

Israel is Expensive I only nipped off a tip of the southern point of Israel — and this was a mighty touristy tip at that — but I must say that this is among the most expensive countries that I have ever traveled through. I am talking USA or Western Europe expensive. Upon paying over [...]

Israeli Soldiers Wear Street Clothes Camouflage Upon crossing the border out of Jordan and into Israel, one startling observation shook me up: almost all of the soldiers at the Israeli border were wearing street clothes. They were typically young men — who were probably doing their conscription duty — with very large machine guns, t-shirts, [...]

Israelis Scared of Obama Inside of a photo developing shop in Eilat I got talking with the woman who worked the counter. She was half-way old and looked a little like someone an uncouth USA teenager might call a “cat lady.” Her hair was a little wild, her eyes did not sit too well in [...]

Wandering in the sun and warmth of Eilat, Israel “I was in Eilat in 1965 and there was nothing there. There was no running water, it was 100 degrees, and I was like, ‘Man, they are going to a have a hard time making this a tourist attraction,'” spoke Chaya’s father on a Skype conversation [...]

Bottle Recycling Cages on Israel Beach Good Idea Sometimes when traveling you come across some action, contraption, or system that you just have to stop and say, “Gee, that is a good idea.” I usually stand next to such thing gawking at it like some sort of moron and then whip out my camera for [...]

Israel on Shabbat The country of Israel becomes a ghost town every Saturday morning. The streets are devoid of people, most every business is closed down, and all is quiet. Not even taxis are on the prowl. As I walked with Chaya through the silent thoroughfares of Eilat, I watched with interest as an empty [...]

Crossing Israel Border with Iraq and Syria Visas We were well warned that crossing the border from Jordan to Israel with Iraqi and Syrian visas in our passports may prove to be a obstacle of mountainous proportions. Travelvice Craigy was stuck in Israeli immigration limbo for 12 hours as he tried to cross from Jordan [...]