Well I just got back from Mitzpe Ramon. I post a lot of my pics on facebook and not as many here because the internet isn’t always as solid. Well we hitchhiked there on saturday very successfully in like 2 hours. Its quite a chilly place up there over looking the cliff something like 900 meters above sea level I think.
The first thing we did is find a cafe to eat and there was only one place open and it was close to one of the hostels we were thinking about staying at. I had a nice toasted sandwich and Nina got her food free because she found a piece of plastic in her food so that was a interesting way to start our little trip.
We then were recommended by the people in the cafe to stay at The Green Backpackers hostel that was very close. So we went over there to check it out. It turns out that its this less than year old place thats really cool and cozy. Its like someones small house that they have lots of guests staying at. So after we put our bags away we headed to the Camel lookout and then along the scenic trail along the rim.
We then headed down a trail for about 20 mins before heading back to the hostel before dark. We some Ibex walking around in the residential area by the crater’s rim and just around town. We went back to the hostel and just chilled and “played” Scene-It Friends. We chatted with a German fellow who went out to get dinner with us. He is hiking around Israel and we exchanged thoughts on different hostels and places to go. We got back to the hostel and one of the owners was there to greet us and ask us about what we are doing in Israel and such because an employee named Spencer checked us in. His name is Yoesh and him and his girlfriend run the place and he has an american mother and speaks english like a native speaker because he basically his.
We wanted to watch a movie so I found The Informant which is a good movie but builds slowly and if you are tired or english isn’t your first language it can be sleep inducing. While we were watching another guest came in. A girl named Jessica from London and we talked with her till we went to bed and we all decided to go on a hike together the next day after getting some falafel.
So we woke up and just got ourselves together and left for the food area of the town and we all got some 12 dollar falafel then went to the gas station for snacks. We then ascended on our hike to a place called “The Carpentry”. It took about two hours to get there and along they way we saw these amazing purples, yellows, and reds in the ground. I took pictures but in person its amazing to see such colors in the ground. The place we are to is also called prism hill and has these amazing prism formations that come up from the ground. We then after chilling for a but made our way fro the road and after saying goodbye to Jessica we attempted hitchhiking back.
We walked for an hour and had no luck. Being four people for sure didn’t help and some guys in a van offered us a ride back into Mitzpe because chances of getting a ride might be better there instead of out in the middle of nowhere. So as soon as we got back the girls wanted to get food so we went back to the place we ate before to eat and refill water bottles. We then headed to the one exit road out of town in the direction that we wanted to go and tried to hitchhike from there and had no success once again and I got mud all over my shoes and they almost got stuck in the mud too so it was all going perfect. We were thinking about maybe taking a bus to maybe Beer Sheva or Eilat and then headback to Tzukim or a bus to Tzihor junction which was still far from where we needed to be but would of maybe allowed the owners to come pick us up. So while waiting for the bus a man pulled out of the gas station across from us and asked us where we were going and told us to get in. He said he saw us when he went in and decided if we were still there to help us out. So he was going to Eilat because he lives on Kibbutz Eilot and took us a little farther south but to the main road #90 because there would be more people going up our way than they we came on the way to Mitzpe. And like 2 minutes after we found a cab and he said 100 shekels to get us there and we hopped in and headed home after about 6 hours of trying to get back.
On the last not for this post we had a fun party on Friday night where we ate in the Han and listened to some live music and then after hung out by the fire. Eariler in the day we worked on doing the final layer inside the Art room and I liked doing that part except sifting (swifting) the clay in the tubs because the wind blows it all away.
Now it bed time once all these photos upload so goodnight!
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