 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. So for today's adventure, we are in a place called Hoonan Castle It's a historical ruin dates back to various periods between the Ottomans The Crusaders and more recently there was an artist was an Arab village that in 1948 was depopulated Slash, you know came into Israeli territory where where we are now. It's on the kind of outskirts of Margaleo, which is another one of these smaller Israeli towns. That's just on the Lebanese border And I've got myself a little bit of extra border spotting today because just right here in this direction that I'm pointing behind me Is the border with Lebanon. You can actually see the houses in Lebanon behind me there You can actually see the blue line markings of the UN and my wife and I are on a little staycation. We live in Jerusalem and Jerusalem is We like Jerusalem for the most part. It's definitely kind of a unique place But there is this kind of indescribable tension About Jerusalem that a lot of people kind of pick up on that when you live there for a while And I personally find the north of Israel very very therapeutic It's got this kind of calm energy, much calmer energy than you get in Jerusalem So that's why we like coming up here. Given that Israel such a small country It also makes it easy. It was about a two-hour drive, two-and-a-half hour drive from Jerusalem up to the north But you know in the grand scheme of things That's not so big and especially at a time when traveling internationally is so complicated with PCR tests If I want to travel outside of Israel right now, we need to get one before we travel We need to get one probably on the way there Then you also need to get one when you come back as far as I know So compared to the massive difficulty right now of traveling internationally We find this is a great great time to staycation can be really expensive But if you get a good booking comm deal you can get some like decent deals good place to come to next time We're here in the north of Israel. So just continuing slightly further up the road here. Here is my soft with the Femi There's one more cool place to see Lebanon from outside Margaleot And I just want to show you guys when I get there Google Maps so that the where we are is a bit more clear and this is again the same view we're looking at before so this is a really really sweet view in terms of how good views get of Lebanon from Israel because You can really see the houses here the individual houses as I've mentioned a few times now So I'll stop mentioning that these are all in Lebanon. You can actually see two blue line markers You can see that those kind of white dots. So most of the border with Lebanon most Israeli borders are not big concrete barriers The one we saw yesterday outside misgav am those are kind of more actually fortifications to protect usually places that are vulnerable to Sniper fire that kind of stuff for the most part. It's just a pretty inconspicuous fence Which has it's a smart fence so the army gets notifications and that's really all it is It's you wouldn't you kind of could mistake it for a regular farm fence the blue line markers a little bit more distinctive You can see halfway up that hill. I'll add a little arrow to my video They the unifil the United Nations interim force in Lebanon. They basically measure these things to the nearest inch It's a whole operation. You can watch them do it They triangulate the exact position along the blue line and they have these very distinctive kind of concrete ballast And then a little blue UN marker. So that's the marker That's just up and you can see it's just a tiny about 10 meters north of the border So that's Lebanon after the blue line and those buildings up on top of that hill those would be in Lebanon From Israel that to me looks like an Lebanese army watch tower up the top there. So, yeah, there's really just a little bit of farmland We're looking here at the last northern most kilometer Within Israel territory here and as you mentioned there is the Patrol road for the army where we are exactly taking out my phone here. I'm just gonna put this layer down So I'm the blue dot here This is Hoonan castle And we're looking across. This is the UN blue line here And then these are the buildings On the other side of the UN you can actually see in satellite view all these Lebanese buildings 33 decimal 221406 is latitude and 35 decimal 543 513 is long at you Just outside the Hoonan castle basically a little bit further up the road You may be getting the idea from this YouTube channel that I'm kind of obsessed with borders I really love borders. I don't know why actually, that's not true When I was a kid we went to Nicosia and Cyprus and I think that's where my border Interest stems from because through Nicosia You have the border between the TRNC and Greek Cyprus running just that way is Margaleo Which is another one of the Israeli towns that are just built literally on the blue line It's the only part of Israel where I kind of can feel that kind of sense of calm That I think is very much fitting with the surroundings. It's a beautiful Mediterranean country it should feel calm, but I'm not exactly sure what this structure is. It's labeled in Hebrew here Amdah Echad station one Looks to be like a bunker This may actually have been a bunker. I mean given This strategic import of this place. It's literally on the Lebanese border. This may actually have been It looks very much like a military bunker. Hope there's no one or nothing inside We're gonna find out soon enough and you can see kind of camouflage here Yeah, definitely stuff for camouflage And little kind of look out here Facing into Lebanon. It's super dark in here. You can still see there is a kind of sleeping bags So probably soldiers here. We're keeping watch over Sais Lebanon It's just kind of tilted downwards. So it's not directly facing into Lebanon, but you can see into Sais Lebanon if you kind of just angle yourself away of it So during times of hostilities what I'm doing now presumably would have been pretty dangerous You wouldn't want to be completely exposed Looking straight into those houses on the Lebanese side. That's exactly what I'm doing right now So I'm just got my Femi up here on a selfie stick. I'm gonna just climb Onto this ballerite here so I get an even better view