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I began women’s hiking tours to Israel out of a yearning to recapture the unadulterated fun and excitement I experienced as a 19 year old college student some 35 years ago on a one-year program in Jerusalem. My weekends and holidays were spent with friends crisscrossing the country: hiking, biking, rafting, and seeing some of the most breathtaking places on earth.
After graduating from college, I spent another year in Israel, met an Israeli, married him, moved back to the states, had four kids, helped them grow up, and sent each of them on a one-year program to Israel. Even after 33 years, I still felt the stinging pang of longing as I packed their bags, knowing what they were about to experience.
I wanted to relive those wonderful youthful days with friends who would enthusiastically join me on this fantastical journey. And that is exactly what I have created.
On each and every trip, I make a new group of friends who indulge me in my fantasy and in fact become willing partners. Women ages 40 and up lose their inhibitions and become spirited, exuberant 19 year olds again on this amazing journey.
Our tour is filled with laughter, fun, and excitement. We hike, dance, swim, ride camels, sleep in Bedouin tents, raft the Jordan River, float in the Dead Sea, and so much more.
In our youthful new identities, we women walkers experience something unbelievably unique, described best by Joel Riskin in his book, A Guide to Hiking in Israel: Along the mountains and deserts of Israel, wherever you walk, a rich tableau of human history has preceded you … On these hikes you enjoy the natural elements against a backdrop of rich and varied history of each region.
The Israel that we see is unlike any place on earth. As we trek along mountains and desert canyons, forest and riverbeds, through caves and waterfalls, we begin to feel the movements of those biblical figures that walked along the same paths. Not only are we transformed by age, we are transported by time. An eerie sense of life as it was once lived thousands of years ago touches us all.
Come join me on an unforgettable journey that will change your life forever!
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