The area called the 'Eilat Mountains' is just behind the city and is more of a hilly desert than a mountain range that is a 10 minute walk from our apartment.
As this was our first time visiting the area we decided to stay close to the main road so that we would not accidentally come across the Egyptian border and the numerous soldiers that patrol it.
After a while of walking we found a hill that was suitable for us beginners and we climbed it, following a sort of track that had likely been formed by other visitors
We decided to head back down once we noticed the rapidly increasing temperature.
We returned to the flat about four hours after we initially set off and I was so exhausted that I fell asleep almost instantly.
I was later awoken by a phone call from Amatzia (the director of the IUI) inviting me to dinner at his house along with Margarita (the phd student I am helping).
Amatzia picked us up at six and took us to his beautiful home that looks out upon the 'Eilat desert' where I had just been as well as a deep dried up river bed that is only re freshened during heavy rains in the winter.
for dinner we had grilled fish, salad and extremely interesting conversations that covered topics from English culture to Amatzia's Phd thesis in which he discovered deep sea 'Black Corals' on sea mounts (Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography) and also spent part of this study aboard the Alvin submersible research vessel.
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