Filed under: Israel
Before going to be last night, we decided that we’d push our day back an hour tomorrow to get some additional rest. We left En Harod at 8:15 and took a cab to the border. Our cab driver told us that Jordanians really don’t like Americans and that we should be careful. He suggested we tell people that we are from Scandinavia. 
At the time, he put a bit of fear in us that probably affected our first impressions of Jordan.
At the border we had an interesting time getting through because frankly, we just didn’t know what to do. We followed a large tourist group and got all the stuff we needed to board a transport bus over the Jordan river and into the checkpoint on the other side that would admit us to Jordan. (more…)
Filed under: Israel
Since we didn’t have a busy day ahead of us, we lazed around the hostel in Tel Hai till 11, letting our laundry dry and repacking. We had a slight change of plans in lodging for tonight. We have to drop the rental car off in Afula, about 45 minutes from the border so we needed to find a closer place to the border to sleep. That way, we don’t have to get up really early to cross the border and meet our guide for Jerash.
With the help of the travel agent who helped plan our large group trip, we found lodging at a kibbutz in En Harod, about 15 minutes from the border. We decided that we’ll head south towards Afula to drop the car off (it had to be at Budget by 5 PM) and revisit some of the Galilee on the way down. (more…)
