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Winter Trip to the North of Israel Winter trip to the north of Israel Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Winter trip to the north of Israel Israel tour plan, full day by day travel plan during the winter in the north of Israel . Winter trip plan to the best of the north of Israel: the Hula valley and the Golan Heights: Safed, Rosh Pina, Agamon Hula, Banias Nature Reserve, The Nimrod Fortress, Mount Bental, Tel Dan reserve and some great restaurants. Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Day 1 - The Upper Galilee Accomodation: Pastoral - Kfar Blum Address: Kibbutz Kfar Blum Website: http://www.booking.com/hotel/il/pastoral.html Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Day 1 - The Upper Galilee in 1857. The most prominent thing inside the synagogue is Safed is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an 1. Safed the great Torah Ark, which is wood- carved and stands tall. elevaon of 900 metres, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee The Ark has many colorful carvings of Jewish symbols, flora, Duration ~ 3 Hours and in Israel. Due to its high elevaon, Safed experiences warm fauna, and more. We connued from HaARI Synagogue to summers and cold, oen snowy, winters. Safed has been Safed, Israel Abuhav Synagogue. The temple was built in the 16th identified with Sepph, a fortified town in the more.. century, and is named aer Rabbi Isaac Abuhav who lived 10:00 Our visit focused on the Jewish quarter and its during the 15th century in Spain. In it, you’ll find the original Torah Scrolls wrien by Rabbi Isaac Abuhav himself. The alleyways, old synagogues, and of course the desire to 2. Rosh Pinna experience a different Purim atmosphere than the one we Sephardi immigrants (Olim) who arrived in Safed in the 16th know. We started in the main art gallery street, Beit Yosef century brought the Torah Scrolls with them, and they are Duration ~ 2 Hours St. It is a long street, out of which a number of alleys branch taken out to be read on three specific mes a year: Rosh Rosh Pinna, Israel out to connect to parallel streets. On the street entrance, Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Shavuot. It is told that in one of there’s a fresh- squeezed juice bar. In the summer, the the great earthquakes that frequented the city the whole owner squeezes pomegranates on the spot, and in winter- place was ruined, except for the eastern wall, in which 10:00 citrus fruit. The street itself and its surroundings are full of resided The Torah Ark and The Torah Scrolls. Inside the synagogue, in the center of the hall, is a raised wooden Judaica stores and art galleries. One of the more interesting WIKIPEDIA places is a gallery which sells different Tallitot and you can plaorm painted blue, and the aending audience sits see them being woven on the spot. Another interesng around it facing it. The walls are white and painted with Rosh Pina is a town and local council in the Upper Galilee on shop is Safed Candles, which has a great variety of colorful depicons of fruit- bearing trees, the symbols of the 12 the eastern slopes of Mount Kna'an in the Northern District of candles, as well as wax sculptures, some depicng biblical tribes, musical instruments that were used in The Temple, Israel. The town with the current name was founded in 1882 stories. From the gallery street, we then descended through and more. While walking through the alleyways we followed by thirty families who immigrated from Romania, making it the alleyways to two synagogues: HaARI and Abuhav. the signage leading the way to Kadosh Cheeses. When we one of the oldest Zionist settlements in Israel. It was more.. HaARI (Rabbi Isaac Luria), who is known as the father of arrived there, we rang the doorbell and the owners showed contemporary Kabbalah, settled in Safed in 1569 and lived in us into a room in which we could purchase the cheeses. The it for three years, unl his passing away at the age of 38. proprietor brought out the selecon of cheeses they The compound in which the synagogue is located today produce from the fridge in the room, gave us tasngs and 5. Cookia used to be a field outside the city. It is told that in those coffee. The cheeses are excellent: they produce Safed Duration ~ 2 Hours days, HaARI used to welcome in the Shabbat with his Cheese of course, as well as very delectable hard cheeses. disciples in that place, wearing white. Some hold that the It was difficult to choose what to buy for home out of all Dafna, Israel synagogue was built in the early 16th century, a few years the goodness we were offered a taste of. aer HaARI’s death, by Greek immigrants originang in Monday: 8:30 AM – 11:00 PM Spain. The synagogue was destroyed in the great WIKIPEDIA Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 11:00 PM earthquake that happened in Safed in 1837, and was rebuilt Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 11:00 PM Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Day 1 - The Upper Galilee 3. Agamon Hula 4. Pastoral Kfar Blum Hotel Duration ~ 2 Hours Duration ~ 1 Hour Agamon Hula Kfar Blum, Israel Rating: 4.7 Telephone: +972 4-683-6611 Website: www.pastoral-hotel.com 15:00 This place is very interesng to visit . The lake is an Rating: 4.4 arficial one, and is located in the Hula Valley. Originally, the place was a swamp unl the 1950’s, at which me it was drained. In the 1990’s the same territory was re- flooded as part of a restoraon project. Today, the lake constutes a major stopover for many different migratory birds, which fly over the Syrian-African Ri Valley from Europe to Africa. Some choose to pass the winter months in the lake and not connue their journey to Africa. Early November is a me in which migrang birds oen frequent the lake. During our visit, not only a multude of birds visited the place, but also a multude of visitors. There is an 8.5-kilometer trail around the lake, which gives access to different parts of it and allows for flora and fauna observaon. One can tour the park in many ways: personal or family bicycles are available for renng, as well as golf carts. There are also organized tours using ‘Safari Wagons’. We have toured in safari wagons twice in the past, in different seasons and different parts of the day. The tour is in a wagon hitched to a tractor, during which one enters areas that are off limits otherwise, and it allows close observaon of the park’s wildlife. We felt like Naonal Geographic field photographers- the tour is highly recommended. It also requires pre- registration. Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Day 2 - The Golan Heights Accomodation: Pastoral - Kfar Blum Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/html/views/pdf.php on line 439 Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] Day 2 - The Golan Heights was probably dedicated to the goddess of the good city trail splits and we'll choose the le one that takes us back 1. Banias Nature Reserve was discovered. We will climb to the top of the cliff to an to the parking lot through the impressive palace of King amzing lookout: From the north we'll be overlooking the Agrippas from the beginning of the first century AD. From Duration ~ 2 Hours Hermon, impressive in height even when not covered in there we will go north with the path ll the entrance gate .white, from the east - the Golan Heights, from the west to the park כביש 99 the Banias Reserve, the Hula Valley and the Naali Monday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Mountains. From the lookout we will connue along the Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM cliff ll we get to a small white building with a dome that is 2. Sa'ar Falls Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM associated with the tomb of Nabi Al Khader. This site is Thursday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM sacred to the Druze and Muslims. From there we will Duration ~ 1 Hour Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM descend safely to the green marked path back to the Banias Sa'ar Falls Saturday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pools. From the pools starts a comfortable blue marked trail Sunday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM leading to an iron and wooden bridge towards the southern Rating: 5 bank of the river. We will go under highway 99 that leads to Telephone: +972 4-695-0272 Website: www.parks.org.il Kiryat Shmona. Here the waters of the Nimrod River meet Rating: 4.6 with the turbulent waters of the Banias. Later we'll get to 4. Nidal Matruf mill – an acve mill driven by water power. The The Golan - Banias Nature Reserve Banias Nature Reserve water is carried to the roof of the mill from Hermon River, Duration ~ 2 Hours Banias Nature Reserve 5/10 The Banias, whose Hebrew falling through the stone made chimney into the basement Mas'ada name is Hermon River, is a nature reserve that includes and turn three paddle wheels connected to the millstones. abundant running water, waterfalls and springs, which flow Matruf mill is used by the Druze villages naves of the Monday: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM in the shade of plane trees, tangle of vines, shrubs, northern Golan Heights: Misada and Ein Kinia, who mill their Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM woodland vegetaon riverbanks and archaeological grain in it.
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