SHVILIS

[Ron posted this as a comment to the this post, last night. i just copied it to here. --keren]

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RonSha said...

well, finally i'm here to post my story - the trail of israel, or shvil israel, as it is called here.

before i forget, the fortress is called namrood, and not nimrod, but it is originaly from arabic, and it could be translated to nimrod...

to trip was amazing! we've finished walking a week ago, and i still havn't yet sorted out my mind - so much time to think, that i think i need another month and a half to think over my thouts. in this everlasting way, i'll allways be on a vacation, thinking...

it took us 45 days to walk 1000k. we had about 7 days of rest, included in the 45 days period.
there are people who are afraid of the desert, like you said, so they go on a pre-trip, to place water and food along the way, so they will not have problems. we've checked the maps, and saw that according to our walking speed, we will not have more then 2 days of walking without water suply. all of the time, except from one time, we've filled up our water tanks from hoses along the way (in structures, settelments, beduween camps...). one time we filled up our water tanks from one of the springs in the desert, which is known to have good drinking water.
the desert itself is hot. very hot. about 38 degrees at noon. so we woke up at 4:30 in the morning, began our hike at first light, until 11-12. then we would find a cave, or a big hoal in the walls of a river, and try to get some shut eye, and eat out lunch - bread with tuna and tomato souse, or with tchina. at 3-4 afternoon we kept on walking until 7:30-8:00. then all there is to do is a canpfire, cook rice and go to sleep.
about food.... we've managed....
kidding. we ate verry good, along the intire trail. there is a part at the end where there is no place to buy food at for about 5-6 days, but we were in a kibbutz called neot smadar, and they supplied us for the remaining 3 days. that meens 1k of rice, some tchina, bread, pita and tuna. that is what we mostly ate along the way. at the kibbutz itself we were at a wedding which held the day we were there, and they FORCED us to come. very nice people.

other nice people we met, who are called "trail angles". they are people who live along the root of the trail, and they offer travelers a warm bed, and ever warmer shower. most of them are living in kibbutzs, so they can share an extra building for us, travelers.

we've also met groups of germans who live next to be'er sheva and volenteer here in israel. they also did the trail, but only the start - 4 days.

the the end of the trail mom and safta went for a vecation in eilat. i've joind them for a 4 day vecation, full board in a hotel. that was a great way to finish this kind of a trip - relaxation.
along the trail i've lost 8 kilograms. i bet i gain them back in the hotel, 4 days after. plenty of food (all you can eat), plenty of coctails (all you can drink)... i had great time.

i've wrote alot, and i bet you have some questions... and it's abit late for me... the problem with travelling in my own country is that there is no time differance, so i can't say that i'm tired due to the jetleg...



here is a link to the photos of the trip. Njoy
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgy_travel/album?.dir=/559ascd&.src=ph&.tok=phHwz7EBT2AetnHS

Sat May 27, 07:07:59 PM EDT
RonSha said...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgy_travel/album?.dir=/559ascd&.src=ph&tok=phHwz7EBT2AetnHS

this is the photos we took...
i bet you will manage with the cut and paste techniqe.

it's so good to be back.

Sat May 27, 07:12:04 PM EDT