Tag: Travel

Lebanon’s cowboys are made at El Rancho outside of Beirut

A Lebanese man takes on a bucking bull at Lebanon's very own dude ranch... do you think he made...

Three Russian Red Sea Snorkelers Attacked By White-Tip Shark

In three separate (and unusual) incidents, a white-tip shark attacks tourists off the coast of Sinai's Sharm Al-Sheikh. I...

Exploring the Middle East the Old Fashioned Way, On Your Own Two Feet

Use the heel-toe express to wander through Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. The Middle East is a pretty amazing place...

A Quick Guide To Travelling By Bike in the Middle East

You can cycle through the Middle East, with some advance planning: ie burka coverings for women going through Saudi...

Egypt Tries to Attract Eco-Tourists to Sharm el-Sheikh With Promises of Carbon Neutrality

Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Sinai region of Egypt, has been a thriving tourist location for decades due to its...

Stephen Colbert on Israel’s National Bird

When Israel declared its new national bird, the hoopoe, Green Prophet was on the story. Little did we know...

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Special guest desert dwelling activist and academic Lucy Michaels, gets to the heart of the matter with a classic...

From Beer Sheva to the Negev: Hiking Out of Rocket Range

As a Green Prophet studying at Ben Gurion University, for the last two weeks I have been out of...

Katan Adventures Puts the EcoloJEWcal (and Ecological) in Travel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqjOn1sxQw For those of you out there who may have been planning an eco tourist trip to Israel but have......

Neot Semadar: An Eco Village in the Southern Negev

If you choose to live in the heart of the Negev desert - or any desert for that matter...

Israeli Eco Tourism Welcomes the Yurt

If you don't know what a yurt is, have no fear.  Most people don't (including yours truly).  But yurts,...

Leave No Trace: Ecologically Responsible Hiking

It's September already and officially the end of the summer (not that you would notice by the still-scorching Middle...