Camping at the Kinneret (a.k.a. The Sea of Galilee)

The weekend of Yom Kippur we had a four day weekend so I joined seven of my classmates and a friend of one of theirs from home and went to northeast Israel. We spent the first night just north of the Kinneret at Yehudiya (I don't have any pictures of the campground) where the next morning we hiked a beautiful slot canyon... part of the hike required swimming the trail... we had a great time! We spent the second night right on the Kinneret which was also beautiful but not quite as mystical as my mind had somehow built it up to be... there were lots of windsurfers and parasailers...

Group at the start of our slot canyon hike.















S and A on the trail.
















The guys...





















The ladies....





















S and I in one of the pools.





















C and N in the back (having gone back to find the hat I dropped....)
















Group climbing down into one of the pools





















Group in one of the waterfalls....














View of old (ancient??) town we hiked through earlier in the day.





















Sunset over the Kinneret





















Me eating pasta fron a jar... the car with the utensils had gone on a water run...






















The guys in the Kinneret sunset...





















S and I during our late night swim...
















The next morning we were all a little tired but....
















N made breakfast and we headed home....