Tel Aviv - Jaffa

Saturday December 29, 2007 - Tel Aviv - Jaffa

With no schedule for the day I managed to sleep in a little bit later. We headed out to have breakfast/lunch at a restaurant on the beach which was very nice and relaxing. The weather was perfect - just a bit windy, but otherwise I couldn't complain. After lunch as the rest of the group decided to be beach bums and sit around the beach and do nothing, so I went for a pretty extensive walk around the city. I made it to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin memorial - where he was assasinated in 1995. After that I continued wandering around. A few hours later, I found myself about halfway to Jaffa - at the south end of the beach. I figured I needed some time to relax, so I met back up with group - still on the beach. We hung out there for a bit before they decided to head back to Jerusalem. I decided to stay in Tel Aviv for a few more hours, as we only needed to be back at our hotel in Jerusalem by 11PM. At this point, I finally found some people who wanted to do something productive and not sit at the beach! Michelle, Samantha and I decided to walk to Jaffa and try and catch the sunset. Before we headed out we stopped off where they were staying. They were staying with a relative who had an incredible view of Tel Aviv and all of the coastline from the 18th storey apartment.

We started on our trek to Jaffa, and we realized that the sun was setting quite quickly and we wouldn't make it there in time. We managed to snap some half descent pictures before the sun was gone. We continued our walk, and finally made it there. Jaffa is the world's oldest port city. After walking around port, we figured it was time to head back to Tel Aviv and grab some dinner before we had to get back to Jerusalem.