Ein Getti is a town and National Park by the Dead Sea. So there were sixteen of us, and we left at 8:30 in the morning, and all got in a van that took us first to the National Park.
Me and Tonya in the van :)
This is the view from the Van...not much, but there's the Dead Sea!We went to the National Park first because we didn't want to be super salty when we were hiking, for after all, that was the activity to do in the National Park. It was sweet though.
When we got there, there was a group of Jewish girls that had come on a school field trip, I believe. And when I say group I mean more like a mob/throng/crowd/entire school population. It was crazy. So we spent the day with them. But they'd all switch around the pools, so it didn't end up being too big of a deal.
We first hiked to David's Falls.
This is an example of our schoolgirl invasion..
But this is David's Falls! It was beautiful!
Kathryn, me, and Kelly in front of David's Falls!
Our fun group we went with...too many people to list, apologies!After that we went to some other falls. They were just called the lower falls, but we found one with little crabs in it, and we jumped off a ledge that was.....level with the water haha. It wasn't that deep, but it was still fun.
The next pool we went to there was a little better of a ledge to jump, and we did. We had it all to ourselves, and then the schoolchildren invasion came. That was okay, until Kyle, a guy in our group, jumped in the pool with us, and the teachers came over and were talking to us in Hebrew. We couldn't understand, obviously, but the gist was that they didn't want him in the water at the same time as the girls swimming, so he got out and we left after that.
Invasion...
But before that, this was our own private pool!
Swimming hair.... :)After that we all kind of split up, and some of us went on a hike and some of us went right down to the Dead Sea. I went on the hike! Aren't you proud of me? I usually am not one for hiking, but I decided that since we'd have time later to do the Dead Sea, that I was going to go on the hike and have fun. So I did.
This is Megan, Kathryn, and Tonya. We were the four on the hike.
And me :) Gotta love the self-portraits haha
At the top of the mountain! We hiked to an ancient temple of some sort, from the people that used to live in the area. Kind of cool.
We also hiked to a really cool spring! The water was so gorgeous and clear. It was beautiful!
And this is the Spring again...
I think we were trying to figure out which way to go.
Haha...Danger! Open Pits!After this we walked down to the Dead Sea at Ein Getti Beach, and we hopped right in! I honestly have to say, I was so surprised at the boyancy in the Dead Sea. I know, I know, everyone says you float. But seriously. You Float. Almost to the point that if you put your bum down in the water and sit in it, it tries to flip you over. It's crazy! Here are some sweet pictures!
This is Megan, me, and Kathryn floating in the Dead Sea! Literally, floating!
And here is me! I'm trying so hard to hold my hands and feet up high without letting the Dead Sea flip me over! It was hard work. And you can see how clear and beautiful the water was when we were there! you can see the stones and everything. But don't be fooled...the salt water does make certain areas uncomfortable.... We had to wash off before doing mud :)
Just Exfoliating our skin with some Dead Sea mud :)
I am the one on the far left in this one :)After that we cleaned off very carefully (Word to the wise: don't get dead sea water in your mouth or eyes. Gross!), and then washed off with the freshwater from the beach showers, and then we all hopped back on the bus and headed for the center!
Dead Sea, Check! :)
No comments:
Post a Comment