Pik'In: Visit in a Druze Village

Arabic dessert: looks like coloured carpet and tastes sweet like the sin... =)

The Druze people are a minority in Israel, living in their own cities and villages in the north. Pik'In reminded me of an Italian mountain village. People were very friendly!

My friends and I were allowed to visit the first family of Pik'In during our road trip. This is how their living room looks like. (Yeah, that's Kennedy on that poster!). I bought a pair of green chandelier earrings from them =))).

We spent the night on this Israeli version of a camp site: an outdoor living room with carpets... XDD. There was no electricity and no warm water, so we had a fire in the evening and drank whine while looking into the stars.

This cute yard belongs to a wavery in Zafed, a city in the north, widely known for its popular art galleries and the ultraorthodox (strongly traditional Jewish) people living there.

*** Okay, now finally Galilas story :D ***

This is my friend HL, carrying around the newest travel group member: puppy dog Galila^^.
The night before, we were driving at a deserted mountain street and Galila directly ran in front of the car. HL stopped and little Galila was so miserable, that T. picked her up and we decided to leave her at the farm where we planned to spend the night.
Just that they did not want her! We gave her sugary water and she throw it all up again during the night. The next day we took her to see a vet (who also did not want to keep her). She said that the little one was just two months old back then! YR made the best name suggestion for her:

We named her after the region that we found her in: the mountains of Galilee (Galiläa). For the rest of the week-long travel, she was sitting in a small basket on the backseat and we would take turns to feed her and cuddle her. What a strenous travel for such a young dog! By this point, it was still not clear what would happen to her. She was like our baby and enjoyed the affection not only from us, but from random people in the street that stopped to pet her and love her. However, there is an happy ending for the abandoned puppy dog... HL and YR took Galila to live with them ( for happy ever after of course). Doesn't it sound like a true fairy-tale?!

Love,PS: Check out this turtle!! I was so excited that I jumped out of the driving car ("Lilly!!!")...

... More soon from the Holy Land ...