Here is the complete list of sites that I have visited in Israel, excluding Jerusalem which is discussed separately in the previous post. Apart from the popular sites in Israel that almost every tourist makes a point to visit, I had the privilege to explore around 32 National Parks and 17 National Reserves, which was a great opportunity to know the land of Israel. The National Parks were visited mostly on my own depending mainly the public transport system, whereas I owe immense debt of gratitude to the one-day hiking trips (usually 8 to 10 km) organised by Midreshet Hiking Club of Sede Boker for the National Reserves. I made it certain that all the sites mentioned in the official brochure of the National Parks are covered. However, in this list, I have enumerated the highlights of only those sites whose attractions are spread in a large area, eg. Timnah Park, Beit Guvrin National Park etc. Regarding the other sites, where the attractions are confined to a relatively smaller geographical area, the highlights are not separately given in the list, nevertheless, they are elaborately discussed in the blog, eg. Caesarea National Park, Masada National Park etc.
1. Acco or Acre
a. Bahai Garden
b. Burj el-Khasla
c. City Walls
d. Crusader Fortress (The Citadel)-Knights Hall
e. Great Mosque of Ahmed el Jazzar
f. Khan al-Umdan (Hostel of Pillars)
g. Lighthouse
h. Marina
i. Old City
j. Pisan Port
k. Sea Gate
l. Sea Wall Promenade
m. St. John Catholic Church
n. Tell Akko (view)
o. Templars Tunnel
2. Antipatris National Park or Tel Aphek
a. Hayarkon
b. Migdal Aphek
3. Apollonia-Arsuf National Park
a. Herzliya City
b. Old Port of Tel Aviv (views)
c. Tel Arsuf
4. Arava Valley
a. Shaharut Settlement
5. Arbel National Reserve
a. Arbel Caves, Arbel Fortress, Nithai Hills
b. Views from Arbel: Church of Beatitudes, Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and the Fishes, Church of the Primacy of Peter, Cove of the Sower, Domus Galillaeae, Ginnosar Valley, Hamam Village, Horns of Hattim, Kfar Zeitim, Khirbet Wadi Hamam, Moshav Amnun, Moshav Arbel, Magdala, Migdal, Mount of Beatitudes, Tomb of Nabi Shueib (Jethro)
c. Views on the way to Galilee: Mount Tabor, Nazareth, Ra'anana, Ramat Gan, Tel Megiddo
d. Arbel Synagogue
6. Ashdod
a. Asdod Beaches
b. Asdod-Yam Fortress (Khirbet Asdod-Yam)
7. Ashqelon National Park
8. Avdat National Park
9. Banias Waterfall
10. Beer Sheva
a. Beer Sheva City
b. Ben-Gurion University
c. Abraham’s Well
11. Bethlehem
a. Basilica of the Nativity
i. Grotto of the Nativity
ii. Manger Square
iii. Tomb of St. Jerome
iv. Tomb of St. Paula and her daughter Eustochium
v. Tomb of Eusebius of Cremona
b. Chapel of the Milk Grotto
c. Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria
i. Chapel of St. Joseph & Holy Innocents
d. Coptic and Ethiopian Churches (views)
e. Har Homa Jewish Settlement (view)
f. Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Mary
12. Bethany
a. Al-Azariyah or Al-Eizariyah (Arab Town)
b. Church of St. Lazarus (Catholic)
c. Church of St. Lazarus (Greek Orthodox)
d. House of Simon the Lepper or House of Lazarus
e. Mosque of al-Uzair
f. Tomb of St. Lazarus
13. Beth Alpha National Park
14. Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park
a. Amphitheatre
b. Bell Caves
c. Columbarium Cave
d. Polish Cave
e. Sidonian Burial Caves
f. Church of St. Anne
15. Beit Jimal Monastery (Kfar Gamla Monastery)
a. St. Stephen's Church
16. Beit Netofa Valley
17. Beit Sahour
a. Church of Shepherds Field & Archaeological remains (Catholic)
b. Church of Shepherds Field & Monastery (Greek Orthodox)
c. Migdal Eder (Tower of the Flock) & Fields of Jacob (Greek Orthodox)
d. Relics of Byzantine Monks of massacred by Persians in 614 (Greek Orthodox)
e. Tombs of the Shepherds (Greek Orthodox)
18. Beit Shearim National Park
19. Ben-Gurion's Tomb National Park, Sede Boker
20. Bethsaida Lookout
21. Beth Shean National Park & Tel Beth Shean
22. Brurim-Hazera Genetics
23. Caesarea National Park
a. Caesarea Beach
b. Or Akiva (view)
c. Hadera City
d. Roman Aqueduct of Caesarea
24. Capernaum
a. Church of Seven Apostles or Monastery of the Holy Apostles (Greek Orthodox)
b. House of St. Peter
c. Remains of 4th Cent. Synagogue
25. Chagall Windows-Hadassah Synagogue, Ein Kerem
26. Castel National Park
a. Kiryat Yearim Maoz Zion, Mevaseret Zion, Modern Jerusalem Motza Illit, Nebi Samuel (views)
27. Daliyat el-Carmel (Druze Village)
28. Dead Sea
29. Dimona
30. Edom Mountains (view)
31. Eilat City
a. Black Canyon (Shakhoret)
b. Coral Beach and Underwater Observatory
c. Eilat Mountains
d. Red Canyon
e. Red Sea-Gulf of Aqaba
f. Taba Border (view)
32. Ein Bokek
33. Ein Hemed National Park
a. Aqua Bella
b. Ein Aminadav
c. Ein Nakuba
d. Ein Raffa
e. Ein Uzi
34. Ein Kerem
a. Church of St. John the Baptist or St. John Ba Harim Church (Catholic)
b. Church of St. John the Baptist (St. John Greek Orthodox)
c. Church of Visitation
d. Mary's Spring (Ein Kerem Spring)
e. Monastery of Notre-Dame de Sion
f. Petah Tikvah (view)
g. Russian Monastery or Al Moskovoia
35. Elah Valley
a. Adullam
b. Khirbet Burgin
c. Khirbet Itri (Horvat Etri)
d. Khirbet Reboah
e. Tel Socoh
36. En Aqev -Dishon Ascent
37. En Avdat National Park
a. Upper and Lower Entrances
b. Wadi Karkash
38. En Fashkha
39. En Gedi National Reserve
40. Enot Tzukim National Reserve
41. Gamla National Reserve
42. Gan Ha-Shalosha National Park or Sahne
a. Amal Stream
b. Kibbutz Nir David
c. Mount Gilboa (view)
d. Tel-Amal & Museum
43. Gilboa Mountains
44. Golan Area
45. Haiffa
a. Bahai World Center & Gardens
b. Carmel Subway
c. Cave of Elijah
d. German Colony
e. Haiffa Beach
f. Holy Family Chapel
g. Jezreel Valley (view)
h. Louis Promenade
i. Mount Carmel
j. National Maritime Museum
k. Stella Maris Monastery
l. Zikhron Yakov (view)
46. Hammat Tiberias National Park
47. Har HaNegev National Reserve
a. Arif el-Nake (view)
b. Karne Ramon Lookout
c. K-Line
d. Mount Ramon
e. Nahal Elitsur
f. Nahal Eliyah
48. Hawarim Valley
a. Hawarim Cisterns
b. Moonlight Hiking
49. Ha Masreq National Reserve
50. Ha Yarkon National Park or Ganei Yehoshua
51. Hebron
a. Cave of the Patriarchs or Mara’at Macpelah (Tombs of Abraham, Sarah, Jacob and Leah)
b. Jewish Quarter
c. Khasba
d. Kiryat Arba (view)
52. Herodion National Park
53. Hermon Stream (Banias) National Reserve
a. Grave of Nebi Khader, Banias (view)
b. Temple & Cave of Pan
54. Hermon Mountain from Nimrod (view)
55. Hippos or Sussita (view)
56. Hotem ha Carmel National Reserve (Stone Tumuli)
a. Israel Coastal area between Haiffa and Netanya (views from Hotem Carmel)
b. Modi'in, Migdal Aphek (view)
c. Moshav Beth Hanania
57. Jaffa
a. Abrasha Park
b. Al-Bahr Mosque
c. Al-Mahmudiyya Mosque (Great Mosque)
d. Andromeda Rocks
e. Church of St. Peter (Catholic)
f. Church of St. Peter & St. Tabitha (Russian Orthodox, view)
g. The Wishing Bridge
h. Gan HaPisgah
i. House of Simon the Tanner
j. Ilan Goor Museum of Jaffa
k. Jaffa Clock Tower
l. Jaffa Flea Market
m. Jaffa Port
n. Kikkar Square
o. Libyan Synagogue
p. Lighthouse
q. Sabil (Fountain) Abu Nabbut (Tabitha's Well)
r. Tell Jaffa
s. Visitor Centre
t. Zodiac Alleys, Old City
58. Jericho
a. Ein es-Sultan (Elisha's Spring)
b. Hisham's Palace (Khirbat Al-Mafjar)
c. Jericho City
d. Monastery of Temptation or Deir Quarantal (Greek Orthodox)
e. Separation Wall
f. Tel es-Sultan (Tel-Jericho)
g. Temptation Mount (Jabel Qarantal)
h. Zachhaeus Sycamore Tree
59. Kadesh Barnea or Nitzanei Sinai
60. Kathisma Church (remains)
61. Keren Ha Carmel Forest
a. Carmel Lookout
b. Jezreel Valley (view)
62. Kfar Kana
a. Cana Catholic Wedding Church
b. Greek Orthodox Wedding Church of Cana
63. Kibbutz Bahan -Utopia Orchid Park
64. Kibbutz Neot Smadar
65. Kibbutz Revivim (view)
66. Kibbutz Yotvata
67. Kibbutz Qetura
a. Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
68. Kibbutz Ramat Rachel
69. Kibbutz Sede Boker
a. David Ben Gurion’s Desert Home
70. Kiryat Gat
71. Kiryat Shmona
72. Kiryat Tivon
a. Tel Yokneam, Jezreel Valley (Views on the way)
73. Kiryat Yearim or Abu Ghosh
a. Crusader Chapel (Benedictine Monastery or St. Mary of the Resurrection Abbey)
b. Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church
74. Korazim (Chorazin) National Park
75. Kursi National Park
76. Jordan River
77. Judean Mountains National Park
a. Beit Meir Moshav
b. Bnei Berit Caves
c. Burma Road
d. Kesalon Valley or Nahal Kesalon
e. Mashlat 21
f. Martyr’s Forest Memorial or Yaar HaKedoshim
g. Mount Arnah
h. Shaar Haggai
78. Lahav North National Reserve
a. Devira Forest (Ir Devira)
b. Hurvat Abu Hof
c. Horvat Rimmon
d. Hurvat (Khirbet) Za’ac
79. Lakish National Park
a. Tel-Lakish
80. Latrun
a. Armored Corps Memorial Site & Museum (Yad La Shiriyon)
b. Ayalon Valley
c. Chapel of Emmaus
d. Emmaus-Nicopolis Archaeological site
e. The Trappist Monastery of Latrun
81. Lod
a. Ben-Gurion Airport
b. El Khadar Mosque
c. Church of St. George (Greek Orthodox)
82. Lot's Wife Pillar
83. Lotz Cisterns or Borotz Lotz
a. Mount Arif en Nakaa (view)
b. Mount Romem & K-Line
c. Valley of Pistacia or Nahal Elot
84. Ma'aleh Shaharut (Shaharut Cliffs)
85. Ma'ayan Harod National Park
a. Gideon's Cave
b. Givat HaMoreh Hills (views)
c. Harod Valley
d. Tombs of Olga and Yehoshua Hankin
86. Maktesh Gadol (Big Crater)
a. Coloured Sands
b. Ein Yorkeam Spring
c. Mount Ardon
d. Petrified (Fossilized) Trees
e. Tel Yorkeam
87. Mamshit National Park-Kurnub
88. Mar Elias Monastery (Greek Orthodox)
a. East Hill/Hill of the Four/Hill of Elijah
b. Field of Grey Peas
c. West Hills/Hill of the Airplane/Field of Habbakkuk/Khirbet Tabaliya
89. Mar Saba Monastery (Greek Orthodox)
90. Mash'had Arab Village
91. Masada (Druze Village)
92. Masada National Park
93. Midreshet-Ben Gurion, Sede Boker
a. Ben Gurion University Campus
b. Synagogue
94. Mitzpe Asael (Israeli Settlement in West Bank)
95. Mitzpeh Ramon National Park
96. Modi’in (Maccabean Graves)
97. Moshav Hazeva
98. Mount of Beatitudes
99. Mount Karkom
a. Hemet Cistern
b. Pre-Historic Rock Engravings
100. Mount Tabor
a. Basilica of Transfiguration (Catholic)
b. Church of St. Elias (Greek Orthodox)
c. Jezreel Valley (views)
d. Mount Gilboa (views)
101. Muhraka-St. Catherine Monastery or Dir el-Muhraka
102. Nahal Alexander or Alexander Stream National Park (Sharon Plain)
a. Bet Yanay Beach
b. Herzeliya, Netanya, Tulkarm (views)
c. Hurvat Samra
103. Nahal Lotz
104. Nahal Me'arot (Carmel Caves) National Reserve
a. Four Prehistoric Caves
105. Nahal Paran
106. Nahal Peres National Reserve
a. Dead Sea, Moab & Edom Mountains, Ein Tamar, Neot HaKikar, Sodom or Sdom Plains (views from Lookout)
b. Ha-Arava Junction, Tamar Fortress, Rotem Chemical Factory (views)
c. Ma'ale Tamar
d. Mount Sdom
e. Nahal Tikhmas
f. Nahal Tsafit
g. Peres Gorge and Gevei Peres (Water Holes)
107. Nahal Taninim
a. Taninim Aqueduct (Hadrian Caesar)
108. Nahariya
109. Nazareth
a. Basilica of Annunciation (Catholic) & Grotto of Annunciation
b. Chapel of Our Lady of Fright (Notre Dame de l'Effroi)
c. Church of St. Joseph
d. Christ Church (Anglican)
e. Fauzi Azar Inn & some other noted Guest Houses of Nazareth
f. Mount of Precipice (Har Kedumim)
g. Jezreel Valley, Nain, Mount Tabor etc.(views)
h. Mary's Well
i. Melkite Greek Catholic Church
j. Nazareth-Illit (Jewish)-view
k. Salesian Basilica & Monastery of Jesus the Adolescent
l. St. Gabriel Greek Orthodox Church of Annunciation & Spring of Mary
m. Synagogue Church
n. White Mosque (Al-Abiad)
110. Neot Kedumim Park
111. Nebi Samwil & Tomb of Samuel the Prophet
112. Nimrod Fortress National Park
113. Quneitra Lookout
114. Qumran National Park
a. Ancient Qumran Settlement
b. Dead Sea Scroll Caves
c. Good Samariatn Inn (view)
115. Ramat HaNadiv Memorial Garden & National Reserve (Baron Edmond de Rothschild)
a. Ein Tzur Aqueduct
b. Horvat Eleq (Herodiaan Fortress)
c. Mansur el-Aqab Farmhouse
116. Ramat Rachel Archaeological Park
a. Mitzpeh Yair Lookout
b. Park of Olives and Olive Columns
c. Views from Ramat Rachel (Herodion, Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Har Homa, Jerusalem)
117. Ramla
a. Custodia di Terra Santa (The Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea and the Hospice of St. Nicodemus, Ramla)
b. Great Mosque (Al-Jami al-Kabir)- earlier St. John Church
c. White Mosque or Tower of the 40 Martyrs
118. Rehavia
a. Monastery of Holy Cross, Nayot
119. Rehovot
a. Tomb of Chaim Weizman
b. Weizmann House
c. Weizman Institute
120. Rosh Hanikra
121. Sa'ar Fall and Sa’ar Valley
122. Samakh Caves National Park
123. Sataf Nature Trail
a. Ein Sataf
b. Mount Eitan
124. Sde Boker
a. Gan-Hapsalim Park
b. Gan Rafi
c. Hatzaz Valley
d. Nabatean Cisterns
e. Nahal Ha’Roa
f. Valley of Zugan
125. Sea of Galilee or Lake of Kinneret
126. Shittim Desert Ashram
127. Shivta National Park
128. Soreq Stalactite Cave National Reserve
129. Soreq Stream National Reserve
a. Beit Shemesh (view)
b. Hurbet Deir Bedar or Dir e-Sheik
c. Hurbet Tora
d. Hurbet (Khirbet) Yallah
e. Nahal Katlav
130. Soreq Valley
131. Susya (Israeli Settlement in West Bank)
a. Khirbet Susya
132. Tabgha or Heptapegon
a. Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and the Fishes
b. Church of the Primacy of Peter
133. Tamar Valley & Lookout
134. Tel Arad National Park
135. Tel Aviv
a. Azrieli Towers (views)
b. Beit Hatefutsot Museum (Diaspora Museum)
c. Ben-Gurion Boulevard
d. Ben-Gurion's Home at Tel Aviv
e. Dizengoff House or Independence Hall
f. Eretz Israel Museum
g. Gordon Beach
h. Neve Tzedek Neighbourhood
i. Rabbin Square
j. Tel-Aviv Beaches
k. Yarkon River
136. Tel Azekah
a. Elah Valley
137. Tel-Gezer
a. Kibbutz Gezer
b. Modi'in, Ayalon Valley (Views)
138. Tel Beit Shemesh
139. Tel Beer Sheva National Park
140. Tel Dan National Reserve
a. Dan Stream
b. En Leshem
141. Tel Es-Safi (Gath)-view
142. Tel-Lachish
143. Tell Megiddo National Park
144. Tel Tzora
a. Moshav Shoresh, Moshav Eshtaol, Tel Eshtaol (views)
b. Rock of Eitam (view)
c. Sculpture Road (Derech HaPesalim), Tel Tzora
145. Tel Zova National Park
a. Ein Bichura
b. Ein Hindak
c. John F. Kennedy Peace Forest & Yad Kennedy
d. Khirbet Se’adim
146. Tiberias
a. Al Amari Mosque
b. Church of St. Peter (Catholic)
c. Crusader Fortress
d. Etz Ha Hayim Synagogue
e. Independence War Memorial
f. Promenade of Tiberias
147. Timnah Valley Park
a. Ancient Copper Mines & Mine Shafts
b. Chariots Rock Drawings
c. Mushroom
d. Spiral Mountain
e. Solomon Pillars
f. Temple Complex of Hathor
g. Timnah Lake
h. Timnah Mountains
148. Tomb of Dan (Kever Dan Ben Ya'akov)
149. Tomb of Maimonides or Rambam, Tiberias
150. Tomb of Rachel or Khever Rachel
151. Tomb of Samson (Kever Shimshon)
152. Tze'elon Beach
153. Uvda Valley
a. Arava Valley
b. Kasui Sand Dunes
c. Leopard Temple
d. Ma'aleh Shaharut (Shaharut Cliffs)
e. Ramon Crater (view)
f. Shaharut Settlement
154. Wadi Arugot or Nahal Arugot
a. Hidden Waterfall (HaMapal HaNistar)
155. Wadi Qelt (Nahal Perat)
a. Ma'ale Adumim (view)
b. Monastery of St. George of Coziba
156. Wadi Zaror
a. Even-Ari Farm
b. Har Mikhya Rock Engravings
c. Mount Zaror
d. Zaror Gev
157. Yattir Forest
a. Drijat Village
b. Har Amassa or Mount Amassa National Reserve
c. Khirbet Anim
158. Yardenit Baptismal Site
159. Yehudiya National Reserve
a. Meshushim Pools
160. Yigal Allon Museum, Kibbutz Ginnossar (Jesus Boat)
161. Zin Cliff Nature Reserve
a) Zin Fort (Metzad Zin)
b) Zin Valley
162. Zippori or Tzippori National Park (Sepphoris)
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