Long Day

We had an 11 hour day, as we started out from Arbel at 7am, after a light breakfast of bread we had saved from our amazing dinner last night. We knew we were in for a treat as we had already had views of Mount Arbel, a mountain that had been split in two by an earthquake around 759 BC. From the peak, we could see miles and miles...the east shore of Sea of Galilee..and so much more. Our 400 meter descent was down the face of the cliff using handholds and very careful steps. Along the decent we viewed and went into cave dwellings. We were rewarded after an incredible morning, when we stopped at a small store that had pastries, yogurt, and an iced coffee thing. We also bought a few things for later, but shortly after we can upon a road side sandwich shop and purchased 3 large sandwiches filled with local foods and stored those for lunch. The next few hours were filled with poor signage and included a 4 kilometer detour due to that. We are not sure but our mileage total was in excess of 30 km.  (All three of us packed two liters of water and we all ran out) We did make it to the Mount of Beatitudes, a church, Capernaum, and the shore of the Sea. Many of the sights seem to be just tourist traps or shines to events or people with hoards of buses dropping off tourist at the entrances. We have officially finished the Jesus Trail, but still have plenty of walking to make it back to Nazareth. Tonight we have nice accomodations and look forward to some much needed rest.