Well - to be honest, it was the cheapest week away on offer.
We booked before we had any second thoughts.
Like: so we're going to Israel - a country we never ever considered as a holiday option.
Or: we'll be staying in the same hotel for a whole week - that would be our record yet.
And then - oh well, let's just go, we're going for the snorkeling, the hotel comes with a swimmingpool and there's a desert and deserts are great.
The flight to Eilat gave us ample opportunity to make photos of what awaited us, and that was, flying all over Israel to the most southern part, mountains. Very dry mountains, and between them dry riverbeds with green dots in it.
Ovda Airport, originally a military base, lies in the middle of the desert, an hours' drive from Eilat.
The landscape we drove through was by far the driest and most barren land we've ever seen. It didn't very much lift our spirits, but travelling along the Egyptian border was special - a huge railing with sensors and camera's separating the middle of nowhere.
Then a roadblock, yes, we're in the Middle East!, and hills covered with military lookouts and camouflaged foxholes.
Finally the town of Eilat, with the Jordanian town of Aqaba next to it.
But first some pics.
I start with my pet love: signposts. This one is in my Top Three.
Then the Israel-Egypt border plus roadblock (in the distance!).
We booked before we had any second thoughts.
Like: so we're going to Israel - a country we never ever considered as a holiday option.
Or: we'll be staying in the same hotel for a whole week - that would be our record yet.
And then - oh well, let's just go, we're going for the snorkeling, the hotel comes with a swimmingpool and there's a desert and deserts are great.
The flight to Eilat gave us ample opportunity to make photos of what awaited us, and that was, flying all over Israel to the most southern part, mountains. Very dry mountains, and between them dry riverbeds with green dots in it.
Ovda Airport, originally a military base, lies in the middle of the desert, an hours' drive from Eilat.
The landscape we drove through was by far the driest and most barren land we've ever seen. It didn't very much lift our spirits, but travelling along the Egyptian border was special - a huge railing with sensors and camera's separating the middle of nowhere.
Then a roadblock, yes, we're in the Middle East!, and hills covered with military lookouts and camouflaged foxholes.
Finally the town of Eilat, with the Jordanian town of Aqaba next to it.
But first some pics.
I start with my pet love: signposts. This one is in my Top Three.
Then the Israel-Egypt border plus roadblock (in the distance!).
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