 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. I'm continuing today with my adventure in the south of Israel. And I'm standing here in probably the most remote place of Israel I've ever been. We're just off the site here of road 171. My wife and I are driving on road 10 today. It's one of the special days of the year when it's open. Road 10 is an incredible road that runs along the Israel-Egypt border. Used to be open all the time, but after a couple of terrorist attacks in Elat, the army closed it off. And now only certain sections are open to civilians on very specific days. And this happens to be one of the two days at the end of August and next during the Jewish High holidays. So where we are now is heading south towards the turn on to road 10. I mean, we've been driving on this road for 20 minutes. I've never been in a place in Israel before quite like this. There's no power lines. We haven't seen a house for about 30 minutes. And if I stop speaking, it's the only time in Israel I've ever heard the sound of absolute silence. There's no one here. There's nothing here. A few army firing ranges, but it's just complete open wilderness. Even to drive on this road, road 171, which is incredibly scenic. You're only allowed to be here during the daytime. You can't even use this road at night time. And if you want to sleep here, you have to be like a super experienced guide. And this is amazing. It just fascinates me that Israel, when you're in Tel Aviv, you know, central Israel, everything is so crowded and you come out to a place like this. And as far as the eye can see on either side of this road, all you can see is desert. The odd Bedouin off-road vehicle is passing by every 10 minutes, but you'd go probably 20 minutes without seeing another human. So we're going to continue now to road 10. And I hope this proves to be interesting. OK, so we've just been allied on to Kvish Esser. This is a road here. And the soldiers you can see behind me in the background on foot patrol. Those are Egyptian soldiers just across the border. And there's actually on the other side of me towards that part of the of the scenery. There's a giant Egyptian army base. So I'll have this kind of distinctive red and yellow coloring. The soldiers were really nice, but you really go on to a army road. They have to open a huge gate by hand and then, you know, all the signage says for official use only. So what we're seeing here at the background all over in this direction besides the Egyptian soldiers patrolling their side of the border. That's a border fence. It's about 50 meters behind me there. And we're getting beautiful views over the territory of Northern Sinai in Egypt here. And we're continuing on this road until Nitsana, which is the exit point for this stretch of the road that the army have opened. You can see as well as border fence right behind me here. It's a huge, it's not huge. I mean, but it is supposed to be seven meters tall. And I'd say, looking at it, it looks about that. It was traditionally a pretty inconspicuous fence, but the Egyptian, the Egypt-Israel border, as I mentioned yesterday, was long associated with human trafficking and drug smuggling. So in order to make it harder for people to cross the border illegally, Israel undertook what must have been a huge infrastructural project because, you know, whoever put this fence up was working in the scorching hot desert, so I can only imagine. And it's now a big steel fence. So this is road ten is in front of me. So the army does actually have a separate patrol road for itself, although the roads are about 10 or 20 meters parallel. What's also really interesting is just the huge difference in landscape between the Israeli side and the Egyptian side. What you're seeing in the background behind me is northern Sinai in Egypt. Of course, this part of the world has biblical significance for Jews because we believe it's where the ancient Israelites wandered for 40 years. But just looking at that huge precipice behind me, it's a huge drop and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of sort of people or vehicles on the Egyptian side. It's pretty it's it's pretty empty there. So just really incredible views and it's the one lane road. I would say if you're thinking about doing this road, you don't need an SUV or a off-road vehicle, but it is pretty narrow. So in cars pass, you have to pull in. But it's been so far really, really worthwhile experience doing this. One of the nice features of Kvish Esser Road 10 is that you have a lot of observation points along the way to pull in. This is one of them. We're here just a few hundred meters down the road from a IDF post. You do get checked and asked questions a few times on the road. And you can see behind me there, the this this is Kvish Esser. It's just literally cracked in some places leading down this hill. There's some interesting signage on this particular post that was saying that the current path of the Israel-Egypt border. And you can see the border fence there. And that, if you can make it out in the distance, the kind of cream and red colored buildings are these Egyptian border watch posts. And they're actually located about every kilometer or so alongside the border. And they're just, I mean, probably 20 meters on the Egyptian side of the fence there, so pretty close right up next to it. The the course of the Israel-Egypt border was finalized in 1906. As I mentioned before, it was concluded between Great Britain and Turkey, basically, because this part was part of the Ottoman Empire. What's nowadays Israel or what was then Palestine and Egypt at the time was a British protectorate. So those were the two sides who met to this this border that was concluded in 1906, even though the countries have changed, it still remained the course of the border here. That we're driving along on Route 10.