More of the Fourth Day

On a trail in the park at Caeserea Philippi we came to a mill with a bakery on the roof. They made the most delicious pita bread I have ever tasted. It was long like a tortilla and rolled up like a wrap and it had a mixture of fresh cheese and herbs in the middle. For one dollar I had a lunch that more than satisfied.

We got back to the car (a little 3 cylinder Renault) about five o'clock. We drove up towards Mount Hermon. On a road that come close to the border with Lebanon there were military installations complete with artilllery aimed towards the border. Israel has always been on 24 hour alert. The landscape of the Golan Heights are strewn with the wreckage of jeeps and homes and former lookout towers left by the Syrians in the 1967 war.

Another thing left are mine fields of which Syria still holds the maps to. All along the path at a certain place on the path in the park at Banias was barbed wire fences with signs warning that on the other side were mine fields. It was a close to as you would want to come to these deadly things. It was very illustrative of what life is like there in the territories and also what it once was. This was one of many things you have to go  to Israel to see. You cannot depend on the media to give a true picture of life there.

We gave rides to 4 more soldiers today. One of them was a sargeant in the Israeli Air Force. I asked him as well as the others about the current peace process. This young man firmly opposed it as the others did, calling it "dangerous."

Arriving back in Galilee we ate falafel from a street vendor (much like you see in New York with hot pretzels and frankfuters). They were delicious!

Tiberias is a beautiful bustling city.