My route took me on what was possibly the hardest climb of the trip – up to a viewpoint where I got my first real glimpse of Eilat. It was a euphoric feeling which was short lived as I had to then descend the steep and treacherous route down the mountain and into Eilat. The 3kms up and down the mountain, which would normally take about 45 minutes, took me over 2 hours and then I still had another 5 kms to actually get to Eilat.
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I final arrived and met Jeremy who had already consumed 2 litres of chocolate milk and read half the paper by the time I got there. We met up with Yonatan and all walked triumphantly to the beach. WE certainly did not expect what was coming next. We had managed to arrival in the middle of a Gay Pride techno party on the beach, a little shocking after the peace and spiritual highs of the desert but most amusing none the less.
We moved down the beach a little and wasted little time in jumping into the sea at the end of an epic journey which saw us traverse the whole land, from the mountains in the north and ending up in the sea in the south.
We had a great Shabbat with the Hecht family, chief rabbi of Eilat and found free accommodation outside in the succah of a Christian youth hostel.
The fun was not over as Jeremy and I hilled out together in Eilat on Sunday. After relaxing by the pool in the Hilton hotel
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And being asked to refrain from playing the piano in the lobby
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We made our way to dolphin reef, for which we got free entry thanks to someone we met on the trail the week before in timna. A beer on the beach, a swim in the sea, a moving movie about releasing a dolphin in to the wild and a kosher chinese meal - before we finally parted and I went back to Jerusalem leaving Jeremy to relax in Eilat for a few days.
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