Eilat and Jordan

Last weekend (before Purim) some friends and I traveled to Eilat where we stayed near the beach. Eilat is located at very bottom of Israel and it is surrounded by Egypt and Jordan. My group took a trip to Jordan for the day to visit Petra. Unfortunately, the day we went was the worst/coldest/rainiest weather Petra had experienced that year so a large part of the park was actually closed off. Every time the rain stopped for a few minutes I was able to snap some pictures.

The reason the closed part of the park is because the City of Petra is located in a cannon. In the desert, when it rains, all of the water rushes to the bottom of the cannon. And yes, that women in

the picture is crying because it was that cold.

Alas, we come across the tomb where the holy grail is hidden! Only to find that we are unable to do the three tasks required of us and we are forced to go home (i.e. this was as far as we were allowed to go into the park)

The next day was absolutely stunning (which was a good thing too because we had to check out of our hotel and our bus back to Jerusalem was not until night time). We got to spend the day at the beach.

All-in-all, Eilat was Eilat of fun