Our alarms half woke us early in the morning to the sight of the green Galilee, although we stayed asleep for most of the bus ride, past the hills and cows of northern Israel. Finally fresh, we went hiking on the Banyas trail, looking and posing at the streams and the waterfall. Next stop was Kibbutz Misgav Am, where one of the members gave a rather unexpurgated account of his experiences living on the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. Finally, we abandoned our bus in favour of rafts and cruised down the Jordan river, chatting with tourists and locals when we weren’t pushing other bus members out of their boats. We’ll cap off the day with a barbecue, then get to bed early to prepare for an even earlier wake up.