Finding out everything I can about Palestine

See, of course I know all the things I've been told, but there are also a lot of other bits of information out there about the land, about the history of all the towns, about the spots that are most beautiful (and most heart breaking). I've been looking into them today and I'm preparing to list out all the places I want to try and see next month.

And that is another thing. It's already September 9th. In less than a month, I'll be there. I fly out the evening of Oct 2nd and I come back the evening of Oct 28th. I can't believe I'm actually going.

Here are some of the things I found that I may want to check out. I know of course there will be things I find out about when I get there, BUT I also wanted to see if I could find some things in advance.

So here's what I've got so far. The list will grow of course. I have a month to explore.

http://www.telaviv4fun.com/galilee.html

Although this site is very much from an Israeli perspective, it gives an interesting insight into places to visit. This is just one of the links on the site that talks about Galilee, which looks really beautiful. I know I want to go there, but also on that site, they talk about The Dead SEA, Jerusalem (also because I know people who live there who I'll be seeing as well), Haifa (if I can get there since it's a little ways away from where I'll be spending most of my time), Tel Aviv (even though I know if I come in touch with a fucked up Israeli, I'm not sure I can hold my tongue, which will get me in trouble... but I'd like to visit it too and I'm flying into and out of there, so maybe I can do it on my way out to make it easy...i dunno), Ramallah (of course since I'll be all up in there with the familia, but also, apparentl, there is an amazing "night life" which I'd like to see... because there's isn't too much info and I want to see what folks mean by that) and Beit Rima if I can get to it since I'm a Rimawi from Beit Rima.

These are just some of the places I'd like to explore wholly or as much as possible. This won't be my last trip, so I can see more the next time but I'm not sure when next time will be.

I don't know in what order I'll be doing this and how much time I'll be in each, but yeah, just wanted to share while I looked all over the place at everything there is to see