Vegetarian Restaurant
Another beautiful day has begun and we started it with a wonderful breakfast at our local vegetarian restaurant in Amirim. If you visit Israel looking for a beautiful and quiet place to stay, Amirim is a great place and this restaurant experience is highly recommended!
We started with appetizers. You can see in the picture the large variety of appetizers.
Later we had the main course made of eggs and a nice yogurt for desert.
But that wasn’t the end, after desert we got a teapot full of fresh herbal tea with allsorts of cookies!At this restaurant you are welcome to enjoy your tea on the back balcony with a beautiful view of the valley and the Sea of Galilee far bellow, or outside in front of the restaurant on the nice low sofas as we did that day.
We even had a little friend giving us company!
Riding On Top of Mt. Meiron
After the great breakfast we had (well, it was brunch actually), we had a beautiful drive to Mount Meiron. Mount Meiron is the second highest mountain in Israel after Mount Hermon. Mount Meiron is 1204 meters above sea level and is one on Israel’s nature reserves. On Mount Meiron there is a field school that provides accommodation and camping places. There are many beautiful walk paths on the top of the mountain and the view is amazing. When we arrived we unloaded our bikes and started riding on one of the paths. Paths are marked very well in Israel so it’s quite easy to find your way around. Some small parts of the paths were not suitable for bicycles so then we had to carry our bike by hand.
In the beginning we found a nice observation point with a great view of the city of Zfat and the Sea of Galilee very far away.
Then, when we were riding on the path you see in the photo, Ilan’s bike chain broke. What do we do now? Should we walk back to the car when it’s still not too far or continue on the same direction walking with our bikes? Ilan tried to fix his bike chain with a rock and it actually worked! We were amazed and happy, not knowing how long the bike chain would stay connected, to our surprise it’s still connected to this day!
After we finished riding the first path we had about an hour before the sun goes down, so we decided to ride another beautiful path, 30 minutes each direction. The ride and the view were wonderful. In the next pictures you can see some of that path.
We saw some big old oak trees.
On the way back, there was a trail that was on a sandy side slope, suddenly, Thamara who was riding in front, slipped and rolled few meters down the slope with her bike – it was scary. Thamara’s elbow was a little scratched but otherwise she was OK, her bicycle was new was slightly damaged – the rear wheel became a little crooked and also the front basket. Still, we were able to continue and enjoy our way back.
Later we met a group of young girls singing and playing a recorder (a flute), they were surprised to see how we got there with our bikes since we had to carry them climbing some big rocks. They offered us some coffee (several times on our trips in Israel we met people on nature reserves who kindly offered us coffee), Since we wanted to go back before it was too dark, we had to say no.
We got to the car loaded the bikes and started driving, not far from the field school we saw a wild bore crossing the road, it was the first time we ever saw a wild bore, it was big. Too bad we weren’t fast enough to take a picture.
