Leaving Amirim
Our seventh honeymoon day was full of activities and adventures. First, we had to pack our things and get ready to leave our beautiful zimmer in Amirim and move to our next place in another beautiful zimmer in a place called Had Nes on the Golan Heights. In the picture you can see our dining room where we had great romantic meals with windows overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
Then after checking out, we left and had one more look at this beautiful place.
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Amud Creek
On the way, we went to see Amud Creek. This time we were early enough for a 4-hour hike in this beautiful place. Amud Creek is a beautiful nature reserve and is one of Israel’s most beautiful national parks. We went to the reserves office to pay the entrance fee and then we learned that we could buy a yearly pass for all of Israel’s national parks. It was a good bargain since for the price of visiting 5 national parks we could see them all - over 60 places!
We highly recommend visiting Israel’s beautiful national parks and getting their special offers to see them all. If you’re a tourist then you can get a pass that is good for 2 weeks which is also a good deal. For more information, visit the website of Israel’s national parks at this link: http://parks.org.il/ParksENG
When we started walking we saw some big lizards (about 30 centimeters long) on the rocks, as in the picture.
Then just before going down to the creek, stands an old abandoned British police station full of bullet holes.
To enter Amud Creek you first need to go down the valley, it’s a long walk down and coming back is a long climb up. On our way down we saw groups of visitors climbing up some were school groups. Some of the kids warned us that it’s a hard climb up, but we were willing to go for this adventure.
In the picture you can see the entrance to Amud Creek, the valley and a great view of Mount Meiron.
An old water fountain.
Amud Creek has many old abandoned buildings that served as water powered flourmills and workshops.
The water in the creek is full of fish.
The water in the creek is full of fish.
Amud Creek has a large variety of trees and different plants such as fig trees, oak trees, plane trees, olive trees and many more… In the picture you can see the beautiful red fruit of the Rough Bindweed plant known as Smilax Aspera in Latin.
There are also bridges to cross to the other side of the creek. We took this picture at the end of the trail and crossed the bridge to the other side.
Right across the bridge we saw all those old abandoned workshops.
We took short videos of the creek. In this video you can see and hear the creek, it was just beautiful. Later in the video we sang a praise song to the God who made all this and the God who brought us together. It’s a song from Psalm 118 in the Bible “Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His mercy endures forever”. We also sang this song on our wedding.
An Adventure On The Way To Had Nes On The Golan Heights
After we finished our tour of Amud Creek we sat down on one of the sites picnic benches and had our lunch. Then, we took the car and drove to our next wonderful zimmer in Had Nes, which is a small village on the Golan Heights. This time Thamara was driving and Ilan was looking at the road map. Driving on the hilly highway was beautiful and easy.
Later, Ilan saw a shortcut on the map; it was supposed to be a small road, which leads to Had Nes. We made a left turn to that road and were looking for the smaller road, which was hard to find. While searching, we saw this very mysterious cloud.
Eventually we found a small and bumpy gravel path not suitable for our small car. We took it and drove slowly on it. On the way we saw some cows, Thamara always said that she had never seen cows on the fields of Israel as in Holland where she comes from. So this view was a surprise for her.
In this picture you can see two cows but only one head, can you tell to which cow it belongs?
We drove farther and farther until we reached a remote ranch. By this time Ilan was getting worried that we were loosing our way, it wasn’t clear where we should turn and it was also getting dark and we were afraid we would get stuck there.
Later, Ilan saw a shortcut on the map; it was supposed to be a small road, which leads to Had Nes. We made a left turn to that road and were looking for the smaller road, which was hard to find. While searching, we saw this very mysterious cloud.
In this picture you can see two cows but only one head, can you tell to which cow it belongs?
We drove farther and farther until we reached a remote ranch. By this time Ilan was getting worried that we were loosing our way, it wasn’t clear where we should turn and it was also getting dark and we were afraid we would get stuck there.
A view of the Sea of Galilee from the gravel path:
Later when it was already dark we saw a pickup truck behind us, the people in the pickup truck were probably wondering what we were doing there with our small car, we asked them for instructions and they guided us. Thamara was cool about the situation unlike Ilan, which was very relived to be back on a good asphalt road. We still made a few mistakes on the road before we eventually arrived to Had Nes but that was easy.
We found our zimmer and unloaded our stuff.
This is how we first saw our zimmer in Had Nes.
This is how we first saw our zimmer in Had Nes.
Later that night, we drove to Katzrin the biggest town on the Golan Heights to do some groceries. The roads at night on the Golan Heights are very dark since there are no lights on the roads.
In Katzrin we saw fireworks, later we learned that it was celebrating 30 years since it was established.
Indeed our seventh honeymoon day was a full day!
