tiyul number 4 – neve ilan

Tiyul #4

July 22, 2010. tiyul number 4 went successfully well! We left the house for neve ilan at three p.m. and we got there at four and started a few minutes after. We parked at the yeshuv neve ilan right next to the wedding hall which happened to be when we got there they were preparing for a wedding that was going to take place there later that night. We parked in a parking lot and went a few meters to a gate which beyond that was a dirt road of the hike. This hike was very similar to nachal katlav. First we walked on the red trail for about ten minutes and then turned right and went down into the valley/river. The whole hike was all beautiful and all of the hike was on a dirt rode except for a five minute part. After we got down to the bottom we turned on to the black trail, which was about 40 minutes, and it was along the bottom of the valley. The next part was in my opinion the most funnest part of the hike we walked a bit more until we got to the red trail, the red trail was the only five minute part which was not a jeep rode. And on this path there was some rock climbing which was fun. After five minutes of walking we got to a canyon. And this canyon was spectacular and there were huge rocks and beyond them were even bigger ones, if you do not understand me I will put pictures up and you can see for yourself. So there at the canyon we ate some snacks and I decided to take a little detour to the bottom. It was awesome in my opinion but there were also some parts which were hard to climb back up on the way back but of coarse, every problem has a solution. So I went back up and now, it was time to climb back up the wadi, because once you go down you must come up. So we went back a bit of the way of which we came and then turned on to the green trail. And oh boy oh boy oh boy! Let me tell you, that climb is the steepest climb I ever did. So we climbed up for twenty minutes and in the middle of the climb occasionally we stopped to look behind us and you know what? We saw modiin! So we climbed until we reached the red trail and turned left. We climbed some more until we got to some ruins from like 2000 years ago. But the amazing part of the ruins was that there were no trees to block us and we could see everything around us, we could even see until bar giyora! So then we climbed some more. Now, we knew that at one point we would be hiking in the sunset but we did not know it would be that beautiful! We were climbing a mountain while watching the sun get higher from behind us because we were going up! It was an incredible sight and I’m also going to put pictures of the sunset, hope you enjoy them. So basically, after that we hiked all the way back to our car. And I think it was a very beautiful hike!!!

Abba and me

Beautiful landscape

Victory in the canyon!

Deeper into the canyon

The whole family in the canyon

The trail

Another part of the trail

And here's Abba on the same trail

Cool black flowers

Very sweaty Abba after the long climb up

Incredible sunset!

Abba and Imma enjoy the sunset (and themselves)

Funky tree

Tagged as: Jerusalem, Neve Ilan, Tiyul