These Boots Were Made for Walkin’

July 11, 2007 - 3:00 PM by

Does the idea of staying in a boutique hotel, ordering up room service and sipping cocktails poolside while on vacation leave you cold?

Are you more the rugged outdoor type enticed by the idea of hiking through rivers, climbing desert mountains or sleeping in a Bedouin tent?

Most important: Are you a 40+ aged woman?

Then get thineself over to the Women Walkers website and check out the itineraries.

Started by Judy Mizrahi, a U.S. entrepreneur who decided to form a woman’s travel group (to Israel) because of the fun and camaraderie that women experience when together….”WomenWalkers hopes to promote friendships and fun experiences while enabling women the opportunity to travel without partners, whether they be single, widowed, or married.”

Itineraries include climbing Masada at sunrise (when was the last time you did THAT?), breakfasting with Bedouins, jeeping it through the desert into Mizpeh Ramon, rafting and water hiking on the Jordan River (assuming it hasn’t dried up)…

The response so far has been very upbeat…

This was my 7th time to Israel. Never have my feelings been so stirred by all the contrasts I experienced as in this totally non-touristy active tour.

What more can anyone ask from a vacation? Oh and did I say LAUGH? We did lots.
 Gloria of Manhattan says…

Sounds cool.

Tags: • Category: A New Reality, Life, Travel 

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3 Comments on These Boots Were Made for Walkin’

  1. TMA on Thu, Jul 12th 2007 2:17 AM

    2. not to sell it short at all — it actually sounds like a great trip — but isn’t that a pretty standard tour? my son’s eighth grade class did “climbing Masada at sunrise, breakfasting with Bedouins [actually, I think it was dinner for them], jeeping it through the desert into Mizpeh Ramon, rafting and water hiking on the Jordan”, etc.…

  2. Stephanie on Thu, Jul 12th 2007 11:02 AM

    3. The itinerary might be somewhat standard but as you put it: Your 14-year-old son’s class did it. These are 40-70 year old women. So the demographic and itineraries differ from, say, a standard Federation style trip.

  3. judy Mizrachi on Wed, Jan 7th 2009 1:56 PM

    4. I just returned from my 9th tour with womenwalkers in the midst of the Gaza incursion. TMA, if you read this, ask any woman who has ever done one of my tours and they will attest to the fact that this is hardly a “standard tour.” As Stephanie put it, we are in our 40′s and up, we’re a very small group and the hiking we do (an all day desert hike to Ein Akef) is hardly eighth grade material. In fact, most of the hiking we do is extraordinary and to places that few Americans ever get to. But the really extraordinary part of the tour is the internal changes that each woman experiences through pushing herself past her limits, making life changing decisions, and forming a bond with other women.

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