If you're trying to travel around the Sea of Galilee, try not to get there on a Sabbath. That's when all local public transportation shuts down, and you're stuck trying to thumb it around this gorgeous jewel of a lake. Not that hitchhiking is a terribly bad idea, and in Israel many people feel sorry for those who didn't plan ahead for their transportation on the Sabbath—and they’ll graciously pick you up. In fact, that's how we ended up touring one of the most beautiful sites on the shores of the freshwater Sea of Galilee, the Mount of the Beatitudes. More of a grassy knoll on the shore of the lake than a mountain, the Mount of Beatitudes is nevertheless one of the most breathtaking ...
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