Monday, February 14, 2011

Feb. 14 2011 tiyul

Today, instead of school, I went on a tiyul with my family.
First, we went to this bee place. First our tour guide showed us how honey bees help flowers get married(the bee rubs in the pollen of one flower then gos to another flower, the other flower makes it's fruit, in the fruit there are  seeds...) Then he showed us how when he gets the honey comb he takes the honey out and cleans it. He gave us a little cup of fresh honey to taste.
     He also showed us that honey from different kinds of flowers looks different.
               
He put on his special clothes and then he showed us the bees.



 Then he talked a little bit about silk worms.  He told us that silk worms are like caterpillars, just when they make the cocoon it is made out of silk, and when they turn to butterflies, you boil the used cocoon and then they can pull it apart, put it on a machine that spun it and make silk.
                                                    Before being boiled...
                                                       And after.
    When we were about to leave we saw a beautiful peacock.

                        

  After the tour, we went on a beautiful hike on Mount Tabor. When we were driving up the mountain, we pulled over on the side of the winding road to look at the view.

                             
When we got to the top, we decided to take a hike around the top of the mountain.  During the walk, we saw some pretty cool caves.

  Close to the end of the walk we saw what we think was a crytp. I took some pictures thru a window.
                            
                                        It was a pretty cool hike!          
                                        
                 At the top of the hill there was a huge church. At the end of the hike we went in.

 Here's a picture of the ceiling:
                                           

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