Eilat

Directly across the Gulf of Eilat is the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, also it is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba, to the south. They say that this city in Jordan is beautiful, but I'm not sure I will be able to make it there.













But I did find an American flag, next to a Canadian flag. Actually Eilat has sister cities, which basically means that they support it financially somewhow. The US is one of them. The street that my hostel is on is named Los Angeles.

Eilat is also mentioned several times in the Bible, first as one of the stations of the Children of Israel after The Exodus from Egypt. King David conquered Edom, and took over Eilat as well. In Kings 2 14:21-22: "And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Elath (Eilat), and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept among his fathers." And again in Kings 2 16:6: "At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath (Eilat) to Aram, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day".


But as you can see from these last two pics, it's become quite the beach town.