Roads Less Travelled - Israel & the
West Bank
Lonely Planet travel writer Amelia Thomas discovers there are two sides to every story as she explores the road less travelled through Israel and the West Bank: the one you read long-distance in the headlines and the one up close and personal that you experience on the ground. From ancient spice trails through the Negev Desert to the heady thermals of the Golan Heights, Amelia rides, ziplines, machine guns and paraglides her way through the troubled Holy Land.
Along the way she takes in Mohammad's birthday, Jesus' birthplace, life in the West Bank and an 'illegal' Bedouin encampment caught between a rock and a hard place.
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is a Lonely Planet writer and journalist who's been living and working in the Middle East for the past five years. She covered the last Palestinian Intifada, the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, and the Israeli disengagement from Gaza for the Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor and Middle East Times. Amelia is the lead author of Lonely Planet's guide to Israel & The Palestinian Territories and wrote The Zoo on the Road to Nablus, which tells the true story of the last Palestinian zoo. A film crew recently followed her on assignment in Israel and the West Bank.
