For my first entry I'd like to start on a rather "light" topic, if you will. Many people think that Israel is just vast desert, and while a large portion of the country is desert, the country's landscape has a lot more to offer that seems to be unknown to outsiders. For starters, Israel's western border is the Mediterranean Sea, the entire western frontier consists of beautiful beaches and coastline. I took the picture to the right in January 2009, it is a view of Tel Aviv from Yaffo, or Jaffa in English. 
Another city on the coast, further north than Tel Aviv, is Haifa. This picture was taken in July 2010, from the Bahai Gardens. It is beautiful places like this that are little known to people because most people don't care. People believe what the news tells them and search for little else beyond that. This is why I am sharing the beauties of Israel with the blogosphere.
If we go further north, we find a luscious green, mountainous region. Who would know that in the "desert" that is Israel, we would find greenery and vegetation?
Let's move down south, to the actual desert - the Negev. Here it is, as I am sure most of you expected Israel to look like. Yet within this vast desert region, there are oases and unexpected landscapes. Ein Gedi, for example, which is west of the Dead Sea. 
Here I am with two friends, taken in March 2010, in front of the Ein Gedi waterfall and oasis. Who knew that such a place would exist in ISRAEL in the middle of the desert? But it does, and these are just some of the little known beauties that Israel has to offer. 
