As far as the eye can see...

13^th December - Camden Abu Dis

Following on from an 8:00am breakfast at 9:30am the British Cadfa members gave an insight into their backgrounds, education and future aspirations. After these insightful presentations we started the official day at 10:30am at the Lake District. We split into our leaders and student groups and ventured through the incredible views which took back our Palestinian guests and Cafda members by surprise.

Our leaders and student groups then took us through the lake taking us to views that were never expected by any of us because of the beauty we were witnessing, one of the Palestinians guests said a quote I will never forget “enjoy this beautiful view because it’s as far as the eye can see and for us all we can see is the apartheid wall”.

There were great views of mountains, forests, trickling water into the lake and a stunning forest. Due to restricted Palestinian movement the travelling on foot freely through the autumn leaves and trees surrounded by nature was definitely very unusual for the Palestinians. Some of the British people wished to go back early but every single Palestinian savoured the views and freedom and went on for the extra walk.

We shared many stories on the hike about differences of life in London and Palestine, but as much as there were differences the similarities were many. The main one being the awe of the nature all around us, typically many debates broke out about the most  serious issues involving the Palestinians and everybody came away from the hike gaining knowledge on each others cultures, British nature and becoming a much closer group

Students Group.