Shalom and this is the last short post of my trip. I will be providing a more in depth report and marathon overview of the course. Jerualem marathon is one to put on your wish list. The Holy City, the lands surrounding and the amazing history cannot be compared anywhere.
Depsite the relentless hills, I felt pretty good today enough that Sam and I walked up Massada.. which is 1.88 km and took us 23 minutes (including time for pictures). The top of Herod’s fortress is about 900 metres straight up. The views are amazing. The history behind how the Romans laid seige for 3 years and the “death before slavery” credo lives on.
The magnificance of the castle is unbelievable .
From here we took a trip to the Dead Sea. Floating is no problem. The oddest sensation is actually trying to swim., and even stand up . The bouyance is , for lack of a better word, weird.
Then we showered off, and drove back to Jerualem, passing through a couple of armed check points.
More food. The Isreali dinners consist of eating, eating, and then the main course,and when you are full more food.BTW all delicious.
Up Sunday morning for the journey to Tel Aviv, home to Toronto and back to work on Monday.
Will write up the complete travelogue next week.
L’hitra/ot (see you soon)
