A few feet off the side of the road

It was a jackknife road and there were no guard rails. The creepy thing was that it was basically a single lane road, but other vehicles - even huge trucks - kept coming up towards us. We all gave it up for our driver Khalil when we got into the basin of the crater.

The Negev

December 2nd 2005
We drove southward, into the Negev. There were absolutely spectacular views! Especially driving down into the great crater. And even though this particular portion of the desert was probably not the one where the nation of Israel wandered after the exodus, it really fed my imagination. The land is very harsh (thinking that the shoes on their feet never wore out is seriously supernatural!), but ... read more

Middle East » Israel

Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more

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