Hula Nature Reserve location is between the Galilee Mountains and the Golan Heights, this place serves as one of the prime wintering sites for a wide variety of birds in the Middle East.
One day we took a tour on safari (secret) wagon with instructor which showed us thousands of cranes, pelicans and herons seating on the plain sureface of water.
We saw how some of them were coming to those who already found their place. Cranes travel by family groups finding each other by their relative voice. So we saw and heard how they do that.
Category: Historical Places
Rosh Ha’nikra is a beauty place near the border with Lebanon. The place is a nature reserve because of the grottos that the water made in the rocks.
Walking along Tel Aviv I have never tired. I love this city with it’s narrow and cosy old streets and full of sun, modern new ones, every stone and every twig speeks to you there.
Caesarea is a city that Herod the Great dedicated to Caesar Augustus more than 2,000 years ago
The Ralli Museum
The Ralli Museums are a private non-profit international organisation the main purpose of which is to draw the attention of the public at large to the quality of contemporary Latin-American art by living artists.
Every time being in old Jaffa I see this tree. The seeing brings me mixed, hard explained feelings and you maybe guess why but now I’m not about.
Do you know that actually Tel Aviv began as a suburb of Jaffa in 1950 and Jaffa was first established after the Flood by Noah’s son Japheth, from whom the town took its name. Jonah, it is said, was swallowed by a whale after he left the port of Jaffa, and Peter performed the Miracle of Tabitha here. A Hebrew etymology indicates that the city is called Jaffa because of its beauty (yofi in Hebrew). The Hellenist tradition links the name to “Iopeia”, which is Cassiopeia, the mother of Andromeda. However the Hellenist accounting for the name dates from hundreds of years after the original naming. So in mythology, Andromeda was chained to a rock in Jaffa port and till now you can see the rock there.
First inhabited 4,000 years ago, Jaffa was once a Philistine town. Later King Solomon used the port to bring cedars from Lebanon which were used for the great Temple in Jerusalem. Though King Herod built Caesarea to replace Jaffa as his main port, Jaffa became important again under Moslem and Crusader rule. The town then declined until the 19th century, when it began to grow in size and influence.
So crowded did Jaffa become that a group of Jews decided to leave Jaffa’s lively, noisy and dirty environs to create a garden suburb which would become Tel Aviv. They bought uninhabited sand dunes north of Jaffa, formed an association called “Ahuzat Bayit” and divided property into parcels of land by drawing lots. The romantic name Tel Aviv (“Hill of Spring”) was chosen for the new community in 1910 partly because of its associations with rebirth and revitalization, and partly because it recalled the vision of Ezekiel. In the biblical Tel Aviv of Babylon, the exiled prophet saw the vision of animated dry bones, which drew him back to Israel. Yet another association is with Theodor Herzl’s visionary book “Alteneuland”. “Tel Aviv” is the free Hebrew translation of that title.
There are a lot of wonderful places you can visit traveling in Israel. First of all this is Jerusalem of course. Without Jerusalem the land of Israel is as a body without a soul, this fascinating place attracts like a magnet with its grandiose ancient past filled with multitude of events. The importance of historical role of Jerusalem can scarcely be exaggerated. Eternity is Jerusalem, but not only. Traveling through Israel again and again you find yourself walking in the exact places where the events of the Bible unfolded, you may hear the Muslim call to prayer competing with the clanging of bells from Christian churches and the prayers of Jews bobbing before the Western Wall. Such geographical names as Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias and others covered with glory Israeli cities names we have heard from childhood.
But at the same time there need be no doubt that Israel is a bustling, noisy, modern country. So, I’m sure if you have not visited Israel yet you are planing to. Searching trough the internet for travel information pay attention on Travel Directory provided resources on travel related websites and pages where you will find links to the most fabulous and informative Israel travel resources and websites that will help you to make right choice.
All of Israel’s landscapes are grandiose and majestic and the place called Rosh HaNikra is one of them.
Rosh HaNikra is meaning “Head of the Grotto”, the name of this mzgnifisent place refers to the numerous enclaves, hotels and rocky niches created by the winter rain and seawater’s continuous beating against the formatipns. The best way to see the grottos up close is by taking the 1.5 hour ride in the cable car. The ride – available every day of the year – provides breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea and Rosh HaNikra’s Precipices. The grotto cliff is the western part of the Sulam Mountain Range, which dates back thousands of years, and which wasinhabited by the Fennecs. In 323 BC Alexander the Great’s army carved a tunnel in Rosh HaNikra, creating a Thoroughfare through which his soldies could pass, putting a siege on the Lebanese city, Tzor.
In 1942 the British Military forces carved two separate tunnels, which it joined with a brige. The railway that was laid in these tunnels joined together whith Lebanese railway system.
The north tunnel now serves as a wee movie theatre, where you can injoy the audio-video instalation entitled “The Sea and the Rock”.
