Israel 2008

Jordan Egypt and goodbye

2008-10-12T07:13:00.001-07:00

The final trip to Jordan (Amman, Petra, Wadi Rum) and Egypt (Kairo, Dahab, Sinai). Thanks to all of you, it was a pleasure, I hope we meet again!

Haifa and the Bahai Garden

2008-09-26T05:38:00.001-07:00

See some pictures of the Bahai Gardens - a religion founded just 150 years ago aswell as some pictures of Haifa. To see the pictures click here

Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea

2008-09-21T13:56:00.001-07:00

The trip to Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea. Followed by a second visit to Jerusalem. Pictures of Ein-Gedi can be seen here.

Jordan - addition

2008-09-17T10:38:00.002-07:00

As a little addition - a panorama of the beautiful landscape of Jordan on our way to Petra.

Golan - North of Israel

2008-09-17T10:38:00.001-07:00

This is the waterfall which goes into the famous Jordan river. Very nice, check the panorama!

Ramallah

2008-09-09T10:31:00.001-07:00

Jericho

2008-09-09T09:56:00.001-07:00

See the car in the first picture? Pretty amazing, isn't it!? Well in Jericho are two wonderful monastaries. In one Jesus lived for 40 days and was tempted by the devil. To see the bible verse scroll down.

Bethlehem

2008-09-09T09:32:00.001-07:00

Bethlehem, the city of Jesus' birth. See pictures of his birthplace, of the place Josepf & Maria stayed with baby Jesus and of course some pictures of the city. Felafel costs 4 shekel only, that's 1.2 US $ and the coke looks funny :)

Temptation of Jesus

2008-09-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

Matt.4: 1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and he had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written, 'He will give His angels charge concerning You'; and 'On their hands they will bear You up, Lest You strike Your foot against a stone.'" Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and he said to Him, "All these things will I give You, if You fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.'" Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him.

That's one of the places we have been to! I brought a stone with me, one of those Jesus was supposed to make bread out of it. I will sell it to the one who gives me most, 50% of the money is going straight to the devil - his appreciation :)

Palestine

2008-09-06T15:26:00.000-07:00

Cooming up next - the trip to Paelestine. It was interesting, that#s for sure, so once again be excited. And.....we all made it out savely :)

Jerusalem pictures

2008-09-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

Here is the link you were waiting for!

2008-08-30T00:36:00.000-07:00

More pictures of the incredible roadtrip you find here. ENJOY

Caesarea

2008-08-29T09:15:00.000-07:00

The ancient city of Caesarea, founded by Herodot later used as harbor for the crusaders which connected the Orient with Europe.

my room

2008-08-29T09:01:00.001-07:00

Ok, probably everyone reading this blog was thinking about how I live when I'm not travelling the country. Therefor I want to show you my room. It's small, but that's ok, it's unbearable hot and sticky which is not ok. Ok I think this is already enough info for today :)

ROADTRIP

2008-08-25T13:41:00.001-07:00

BIG pictures

2008-08-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

Shalom,

to get a better look on what I'm experiencing here in Israel I started to put some big pictures online. The first album is about Tel Aviv. Either you go down and use the link on the Tel Aviv post or you just click here. Enjoy.

Kingdom of Heaven

2008-08-17T13:01:00.000-07:00

Dangerous shoes

2008-08-13T15:20:00.001-07:00

Vorsicht, gefährliche Gummischuhe: In U-Bahn-Stationen und auf einem Flughafen in den USA werden die Benutzer von Rolltreppen neuerdings vor dem Betreten mit Crocs gewarnt. In Atlanta verletzten sich Kinder, weil sie mit den weichen Schuhen in der Rolltreppe festklemmten. Quelle: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,571833,00.html

Akko

2008-08-13T14:21:00.000-07:00

30 minutes by train from Haifa up north you will reach the ancient city of Akko. Very interesting old city with narrow alleys, 7 mosques a lighthouse and of course falafel shops. A little man called

Napoleon used to be here as well. Now it was me who was there, I felt a little bit like Napoleon, just bigger :)

Praying mantis

2008-08-12T14:29:00.000-07:00

This weird insect is in our room. It's called praying mantis, for more information about it visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis

Tel Aviv

2008-08-12T14:21:00.000-07:00

YEAH, Tel Aviv we are coming. Meanwhile the group of exchange students has increased quite a bit. Students from Germany, Poland, Italy, Turkey and Serbia are now in Israel. After walking through Tel Aviv more miles than Jesus did in his whole life we finally arrive at the beach. Next stop is the old jaffa hostel where we sleep on the roof, you read right, on the roof - but it's better than you would guess. In the evening we went to a bar and drank some beers, some vodka, and so on...

for more pictures visit: Album Tel Aviv

The Beach

2008-08-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

Arriving at the Technion Campus I meet with the student organisator and get my room (pictures will follow). Then I met other exchange students, Adrian from Poland and Ilaria from Italy, together we were looking for the beach.

Finally, after travelling all the time we arrived at the beach of Haifa. Not too crowded, nice fine sand and wonderful clear water - NICE!

Next thing we are about to see will be the city of Tel Aviv.

The Arrival

2008-08-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, I didn't really make any pictures at the arrival - so there will be nothing to see :( but don't worry, the first trip to the beach will come up soon. So far...