A stunning snow-topped mountain with a lovely pond and blooming fruit trees in the foreground, mingling with rolling green hills? It doesn't get much better than that, especially on a cool spring day with blue skies! A few weeks ago we were able to work really hard preparing the house for Passover and take a 3 night vacation for shabbos HaGadol, the shabbos before Passover. We choose Moshav Keshet in the Golan Heights, as a newish neighbor of ours had lived there for 30 years and it was totally unfamiliar to us. And wow, what an amazing location and change of scenery just an hour or so drive from home. The red bud trees were blooming on the moshav, and you can see that here, and we even discovered a very rare wild iris here, and enjoyed cyclamen (a flower native to Israel) blooming everywhere, here. And now I'd like to share with you some of the stunning views from a bunker hill just above our vacation rental......a hill that I climbed twice as I just had to make sure that all the family members got to experience it! Okay, join me, will you?
A dirt road rises from the perimeter of the Moshav's residential area......
A look at some of the Moshav's greenhouses and other agricultural and farming endeavers. These businesses are run by the community and most households have one member who works in one of the businesses.
Looking west, you can just see the tip of Mount Meron in the middle of the photo, peaking out from the mountain range in front of it. We live between those two ranges.
And WOW, Mount Hermon covered in snow, stunning! And the two volcanic mountains on the left ( I later learned) are Mount Bental and Mount Avital, which we also visited! And that winding path? Another historic bunker hill which we also visited, since I'd seen the trail here.
The very interesting volanic Mount Peres, right on the Syrian border, that has an intact crater, and yes, wind turbines.
And a good look at the stunning view with pastures and orchards in the foreground, and Mount Hermon in all its glory.
As we started back down the hill......look you can just barely see The Kinneret (Lake Tiberius) to the south-west.
And that reservoir sure does look lovely!
It was truly a wonderful walk and so glad my curiosity led me there!