This post was written together with Danielle and also appears on her blog The Roaming Coconut. After two weeks traveling through Israel, it was time to go somewhere new. I was already obsessed with visiting the Balkans and Danielle really wanted to go to Greece, so ...
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Surfing in Palestine
Having grown up amidst continuous news headlines featuring the Israel-Palestine conflict, I rarely hear "Israel" without thinking of Palestine. So of course I wasn't going to spend two weeks in Israel without making a trip to Palestine (or the West Bank if you prefer - I'm not ...
11 Ways to Backpack Israel on Less Than $20 a Day
I have always been interested in traveling to Israel, even though I had heard that the country is incredibly expensive and almost impossible to travel through on a tight budget. But after a couple of weeks there, I learned that thanks to amazing Israeli ...
How to Find a Boyfriend in Petra
Petra, also known as the Rose City, was established by the Nabataeans as their capital city a whopping 2,300 years ago and has been on my travel bucket list for a long time. Of course it was my first (and sort of only) stop in Jordan, and it certainly did not disappoint! It may ...
From Egypt to Jordan on the Red Sea
Alicia and I only had one week in Egypt (because someone had to go back home to study for the LSATs, WHATEVER) and we needed to catch the ferry to Jordan at the end of the week, so instead of taking the traditional tourist route from Cairo down to Luxor and Aswan we caught a bus ...