“STAYING with your family? Like, in their village? Do they have camels?”
It’s the Middle Eastern equivalent of being asked if we ride kangaroos to work in Australia but these people are 100 per cent serious.
Every trip, my family brings Australian friends along to experience Israel. And every time they leave it is the same reaction: “I thought there would be bombs, and desert … and more goats.”
In my experience as a tourist, the strife-torn Israel that you see in the western media is nothing like what you experience as a traveller.
[The government’s Smart Traveller website warns visitors to “exercise a high degree of caution due to the threat of terrorist attack and the threat of rocket fire”.]
Modern-day Israel is nothing like you have ever experienced before. It has something for every traveller — enchanting cuisine, picturesque country roads, and history.
Seeing the country as a whole is a diverse experience, but if you only had a short time there, this is what you cannot miss.
Read the full article by Christine Vanden Byllaardt at news.com.au.