Tel Aviv, Israel is where today. We are actually docked in Ashdod, and bus into Tel Aviv. We spend the afternoon touring the city which has a very European flavour to it. We stop for a few minutes at the square where Itzhak Rabin was assassinated. I’m sure this would have been interesting if we had been able to hear ANY of it. We got a bit of a dud today in terms of our guide. All in all, we have been very lucky with guides throughout this trip, but today was just not great.
We then made our way to Jaffa which has been incorporated with Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Jaffa). Jaffa is apparently one of the oldest cities in the world. The location here is stunning - the city is right on Mediterranean coast. We take a walking tour of Jaffa’s narrow lanes and cobblestoned streets (very European.)
Security is definitely high here in Israel (as expected.) We had a face-to-face immigration inspection when we arrived which we have only had to do in India. Typically we don’t even see our passports. The ship handles all of the immigration and our passports are stamped without us having anything to do with it.
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