Then we made our way to the central station to catch a bus to Eilat. By this time I was feeling a little ordinary. We waited at the bus stop and watched the people. This is the first place I've noticed the soldier presence here in Israel. All young people, chatting away on their phones. Doing all the things that young people do, but in military uniform with enormous rifles under their arms.
We picked up rolls for the trip: egg and salad (literally a flat omelette) and cheese with salad. The scenery of the desert we passed on the way was pretty. Lots of rock faces and valleys.
Our hostel in Eilat was one of the nicer places we had stayed at.
It was almost cheap hotel quality if the air-con had worked. Which is a huge if, as Eilat´s southern location means it reaches scorching heat by 9 in the morning. We arrived at 7pm and it was still very hot. We looked for a place to update our photos and these travel blogs. By now we were more than a week behind.
The lonely planet said there was a decent net café called Capish. It looked a little out of the way on the map, but we didn't mind the walk. We walked up hills and down hills and up hills some more. The heat was getting bad and few of the streets had street signs. We seemed to be walking further and further into deep suburbia and away from any shopping areas.
We thought there might be a little shopping area tucked away somewhere. We eventually got to the place Lonely Planet told us to go to, supposedly a ´new tourist center´. All we found as the most religious suburb in Eilat. They were all in the middle of evening prayers. Nothing even close to a shop or café. Lonely Planet was wrong. Again. We started the long hike back to our un-air-conditioned beds and tuna sandwiches for dinner.
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