This september I tried to hike Israel National Trail in 1 month, covering about 1000km over hills, valleys and desert. On day 21 I decided to stop. At that point I had covered ~700km in 18 days (I took a few days off before desert).

All advices in this article should be taken with grain of salt. I started in early September with goal to finish whole trail in 30 days, and I will assume you want to do the same. My budget was 3500 NIS (~500 LVL), not including flight ticket to Tel Aviv.

After first few days I broke my camera, so had no choice but to take very low-res photos with my phone. Sorry about that.

Yesterday I met 2 guys from Dagestan and after some beer we went from place to place where we played some pool, met very drunk irish and watched some indian play. Stage was built and decorated that same day accompanied by loud music. During the day there was some political speeches. Very nice evening.

I've decided to upload most of pictures to facebook. It will be a lot easier for me (don't have to make gazillion posts) and my friends (they will be notified when new pictures are added).

You can see them even if you don't have facebook account: India 2013 and Food in India

We got phone numbers. Vodafone SIM card costs 200 INR (2 LVL), local calls cost 1.2 INR (0.012 LVL) per minute, SMS message - 1 INR (0.01 LVL).

If they are not working - try the next day - they take two days to activate due to buyer's background check or something.

Raitis: (+91) 9765373100

Artur: (+91) 9765372982