Passover Break

In Israel the vacations are done by Jewish holidays so for Passover I had a little over a week off to do whatever I wanted. I decided to spend some of that time doing a three day hike. With a few friends, we went from just north a coastal city called Naharia and hiked all the way to the Kinerret. Sleeping in sleeping bags on the trails, my group spent about 14 hours a day hiking from sunup to sundown. At the end of the first day we noticed that we were running low on water since we hadn't had a chance to fill up since the night before. We looked at our map and realized that we were at a we had two options of how to get to the next part of the trail some 5 kilometers away. On the one hand we could have taken a few highways, but we could follow an unmarked path that would lead us to an old, dried up stream that would lead is to another old, dried up stream that would lead us to another unmarked path that would lead us to the next part of the trail. As sundown was rapidly approaching, we decided to take the later. We walked through a town called Ma'alot, picked up some water from a kindly woman we met on the street, and went on our way. That first night we slept on the rocky, dried up stream bed, but, because we were all so exhausted, we slept soundly. We awoke a little before dawn and began our day's journey. We followed our map as best as we could and lead us to 3 unidentifiable forks in the road. We guessed at each fork and only made one mistake. At the end of the third fork we thought we were very lost, but we decided to walk until we met someone or found something that could tell us where we were. We ended walking right to the next marked path of the trail. From there we continued on our journey; we hiked up and down Mount Mairon and ended up right by Tzfat and slept on some grassy trail from 8 PM - 2 AM. At 2 AM we woke up and began while it was still dark out. We got word the day before that it was going to be 115 degrees out in the heat of the day and you can't really hike in that heat. We hiked for about three hours in darkness and then continued till about 1 when we finally made it to the Kinerret. At that point it was so hot that some of us were getting heat rash. Swimming in the Kinerret cooled us down and we were exhausted but not overheating. We finished the hike with a fancy meal at some resturant in Tiveria and then took buses home and slept for 12 hours.
The next day I visited the Art Museum of Tel Aviv. There was an exhibit by some Israeli artist whose last or first name was Natan and there was a collection of paintings from Monet, Chagal, and a few other artists.
I finished the break with a Shabbas with my dad's cousins who have a flat in Jerusalem.