Out and about
Sep. 5th, 2006 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragojustineOrganized a few actual tours- supposed to be to Caesarea today, Masada/Dead Sea tomorrow. The Tour company mixed up, though, and didn’t come to get me at 6:00 as arranged. Spent awhile in the very early morning on the phone with them, and they picked me up for a Masada tour today a little later. Not a lot of confidence, but our actual guide turned out great. Funny, knowledgeable and relaxed.
Cable car up Masada, walk around the ruins. Really incredible. The engineering, especially of the water system, is just something else.
The Aussie family I was with had a whiny kid and a shopper mom (so much time in a gift store!) Kid hated the mountain- too hot, didn’t care. Mom spent two hours at a jewelry counter. Then down to a kibbutz on the Dead Sea. Unbelievable hotsprings to a 39C pool- wow! Freshwater pool, and the actual sea. Actual sea water was very strange. Leaves a kind of film. Stings like a bitch on scrapes and girly bits. Leaves you… slipperier than normal water. You feel very strange for a few hours later and then it wears off and your skin just feels great for a day.
All in all, tours like this are easier and cheaper than trying to arrange something on your own but they always move too fast through the interesting bits and linger at gift stores.
Cable car up Masada, walk around the ruins. Really incredible. The engineering, especially of the water system, is just something else.
The Aussie family I was with had a whiny kid and a shopper mom (so much time in a gift store!) Kid hated the mountain- too hot, didn’t care. Mom spent two hours at a jewelry counter. Then down to a kibbutz on the Dead Sea. Unbelievable hotsprings to a 39C pool- wow! Freshwater pool, and the actual sea. Actual sea water was very strange. Leaves a kind of film. Stings like a bitch on scrapes and girly bits. Leaves you… slipperier than normal water. You feel very strange for a few hours later and then it wears off and your skin just feels great for a day.
All in all, tours like this are easier and cheaper than trying to arrange something on your own but they always move too fast through the interesting bits and linger at gift stores.