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Day Three: Bnias Waterfall & Jeeping (morning)

12/20/2012

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By: Katya Sorsher

After a night of enjoying the food and drinks of Tiberius, we were awoken early to a warm breakfast. There was a buzz among the group of the awaited meeting of the Israeli soldiers. We all boarded the bus and sought out to meet our new friends. They turned out to be very different than we had imagined but, of course, welcomed them into our group like long lost friends.

We journeyed on continued to our morning hike. We were going to see the banias river waterfall... In the rain.
That's right folks it is raining here today. The brave few trekked into the cold, wet terrain. The rest lagged behind and slowly dredged after them and were all happy to find that minutes into our hike the clouds spread and it stopped raining allowing everyone to take in the beauty of our surroundings. The hike was muddy yet peaceful and beautiful. But there was more in store for us..

Our next activity was Mini Jeeping, but this time the rain wasn't as kind. We grouped up in 3's, 4's and 5's, dawned our raincoats and hopped into the vehicles. As we drove in a single file with the wind and rain beating into our faces. On the first half I drove and couldn't shake the feeling of being in the Jurassic Park movie. There were barbed wire fences to either sides of the narrow road and the place was deserted. We had no clue where we were going until we arrived at a clearing where we saw Lebanon and Syria in the distance.

Our jeeping tour leader talked to us about the history of the area as we dreamed of warmer places to survive our cold wet clothes. As we headed back, I had a surreal moment of realizing where I was and the effects of this region on my religion. With how fast things are moving it is hard to fully take things but these small moments makes this trip all the better.

For now, I'm off to find warmth and dry clothes.
Signing off.
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