But of course, we didn't leave enough time to get to the bus station by 6:00 so we missed that first bus which made us miss our connection. We ended up waiting at our connection stop for a couple hours so we thought maybe we would do the whole hike that day and head back the next day after sleeping on a beach or something like that. For this plan to work we would need a fair amount of food with us so we went to the convenience store by the bus station and we all stocked up on all sorts of snacks and water (because they didn't have much in terms of real food).
With our backpacks full of bamba and potato chips we ended up getting to our hiking spot at about 1:00 pm. We started to hike and found an AMAZING swimming hole (with a beautiful waterfall) but almost as soon as we all jumped in, it started to rain (which, by the way, was ridiculous because I was told that there was no way it would rain until at least October and this was mid September). The rain ruined our plans of sleeping on a beach so we got out of the water, turned around, and ran all the way back to the bus station to make sure we made the last bus.
We ended up making it back in time for an enjoyable Friday night in Tel Aviv (with our pounds and pounds of snacks which seemed completely ridiculous at this point) but it was quite an adventure for one day. Here are some pictures!
The group just getting started on our hike after an already long day of bus stations.
Tessa, Leah, and Carolyn hiking through some ruins.
Me on a cliff.
That's the waterfall we swam in from afar.
Cool flower I found.
Swimming hole! It was beautiful and I actually really loved that it started raining when we were swimming! (Others were less than thrilled...)
The group in the waterfall!
It was a pretty crazy and tiring day but I ended up being very glad I went.
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