Here are some other photos that were taken by our group leaderand posted on the internet at this site

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The trip ended on Wednesday night. Thursday, me and two friends went to Haifa, which is North of Tel Aviv, and went out with one of the Israeli soldiers that was on our trip. The next day we visited the Bahai Gardens, which is connected to what I think is the biggest Bahai temple in the world. This was interesting to see and read about, considering I had never heard of the religion before 2 months ago when an 85 year old man, staying at my hostel in Bolivia, spent an hour trying to convince me of the truths and try to convert me to his Bahai beliefs before I cut him off (not sure why I let it go that long, its just hard to cut off an 85 year man). The religion is just over a hundred years old and basically has the belief that there have been multiple messiahs including Moses, Jesus, Buddah, Etc. In short, every other religion’s messiah is somehow included into Bahai beliefs.

After Haifa, we made our way back to Tel Aviv and have just been hanging out by the beach and seeing some sights.  Today we went to Old Jaffa to walk around and have some lunch.  I wasn’t able to rotate this photo, but you can get the idea.

So, in the past two weeks I talked to a few people who had made their way to the various places I plan on visiting and in doing so I have received some very good information and a little more concreteness to my plan, not when or how long I am going to each place, just which places I want to go to.  Unlike South America, I will not be venturing off from what I have been reccomended to see, given the surrounding geographics.  For instance, I dont think I am going to rent a car and zip on over to Saudi Arabia for the weekend, just wouldn’t be smart. I do however plan on visiting a few Bedouin villages in Jordan, such as Wadi Rum and an archaeological ancient city, which was found in 1812, called Petra. After, or before, my short stay in Jordan I plan on going to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt to live in a straw beach bungalow and do some of the best scuba diving in the world.  Then, their is the possibility that I fly to Cairo from Nuweiba, or just come back to Tel Aviv and fly to Turkey….I figure I may as well see as much as I can while I’m here since I came here on a free plane ticket which would have costed $1500 , thank you Taglit Birthright.  Well, thats all for now, I will update you when I reach my first destination!