woensdag 28 maart 2012

We arrived at Tel Aviv!

The 27th of March Teun van Kessel and I flew to Tel Aviv with Jetairfly from Liège Airport in Belgium. The control at the airport wasn’t very strong and everything went very smoothly unlike last spring. At 23:00 we arrived at the airport in Tel Aviv and around 01:00 in the night we were on the central station.

We have created the tradition to stay awake the entire night when we arrive to Tel Aviv. Also this night was a long night. We walked through almost the whole city with 25 kilo of baggage, met some very friendly people but we didn’t find a sleeping place. Finally we found a very nice hostel around five in the morning close to Old Jaffa , the most beautiful part of the city but that isn’t very hard because the rest of the city is more like a garbage dump.

04:00 in the night, searching for a sleeping place...

After a night without sleep, we went for a walk and some birding in Old Jaffa. There wasn’t any migration but we saw some nice locals including Palestine sunbird, Pied kingfisher, Syrian woodpecker, Laughing dove, Sardinian warbler, White-spectacled bulbul and our first swallows and swifts of the year.

We are now very tired on the nice roof terrace of the Old Jaffa Hostel with a beer and quite a nice overview over the Mediterranean sea and the city!

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