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Underwater Observatory Marin Park   Eilat

Underwater Observatory Marin Park, Eilat

 35 Reviews  These turtles are in the turtle and stingray pool in the Underwater Observatory Marine Park. There is a central sandy island where you can see where the turles have laid their eggs, and if you come at... 

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Eilat Beaches   Eilat

Eilat Beaches, Eilat

 25 Reviews   Coral Beach Nature Reserve is an underwater marine reserve of tropical marine flora and fauna. Coral Beach is a seashore nature reserve in southwestern Eilat, 500 m north of the Taba border crossing... 

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Diving   Eilat

Diving, Eilat

 11 Reviews  I owe thanks to Sharon (SharonR), a good friend who gave me the gift of a dive for my 60th birthday. This was so much fun and I enjoyed it immensely. Took Tal's boyfriend Itzik along so I would have a... 

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Dolphin Reef   Eilat

Dolphin Reef, Eilat

 15 Reviews  The Dolphin Reef is my favourite attraction in Eilat, just for the sake of the dolphins of course :) Here you can just enjoy their company, you can swim with them or just observe from the deck. This... 

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Timna Natural Park   Eilat

Timna Natural Park, Eilat

 13 Reviews  Same as with the Solomon's Pillars and the mushroom, also here the nature of rain, water and wind dig into the red rock to created these arches. You need to walk a bit further to see those, don't... 

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The Promanade   Eilat

The Promanade, Eilat

 10 Reviews   Kings City is a biblical theme park in Eilat, which was inaugurated in June 2005. It required an investment of about USD 40 million. It is owned by "Africa Israel", "Elran d.d. Real Estate ltd" and a... 

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Cruize in the Red Sea   Eilat

Cruize in the Red Sea, Eilat

 6 Reviews   To get the diving experience without so much as getting your feet wet, take to the waters off Eilat in a glass bottomed boat. I’ve taken a Galaxy Underwater Yacht tour. The yacht leaves from the... 

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Red Canyon   Eilat

Red Canyon, Eilat

 2 Reviews  Aside from being physically beautiful to wander in the Red Canyon and see the layering of colors on the canyon walls, it is also fun to slide down the slopes that are formed by the slow erosion of... 

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Water activities   Eilat

Water activities, Eilat

 3 Reviews  The northern tip of the Red Sea is relatively warm year-round, calm, and full of fantastic marine life. Two beaches I visited in January, 2009 offer excellent access and habitats. Coral Beach is a... 

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The 101   Eilat

The 101, Eilat

 2 Reviews  At 101 km from Eilat, you will find this place to stop, buy something to drink or eat, and also relax a little, they have animals, and some exhibitions. While driving to Eilat you cross the Arava... 

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Har Karkom, part II

by Martin_S.

Some more photos showing the Har Karkom area, the first showing another of the fabulous petroglyphs there.The second shows one of the small depressions in the upper plateau which allows the formation of small waterholes in the stone. Zohara is standing near one so you can understand the scale of the available water.The third photo shows another of the odd rock formations to be found there.The fourth shows another petroglyph, they show anything from animals to archers, to what looks like someone playing a kazoo.The last photo shows our group resting in the shade of the cliff after making a very hard and steep climb up from the valley below. Lots of water and rest...the shade helped also to cool the body down.

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Har Karkom, part III

by Martin_S.

This series of photos shows more of the fantastic petroglyphs found at the Har Karkom site. You could wander around all day and still not see them all. I have read that thousands have been found there.

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Har Karkom, the REAL Mount Sinai

by Martin_S.

Mount Sinai, the place where Mr. Moses got talked to...everyone knows the name, and there is a mountain in the Sinai Desert with this name, but is it the REAL Mount Sinai. For the history of this place, take a look at the following web site, it can explain better than I -http://www.harkarkom.com/As for the photos, well, with THAT I can help. We took our friends Patrick (patje) and Lea who were visiting from Belgium out there. True it is a place not many tourists get to visit since it is in the middle of a military restricted area and only open on two or three dates a year...but you will see from the photos that if you CAN make it there it is well worth it.The first photo shows the type of petroglyph to be found, carved into the "patina".The second photo shows some of the odd rock formations to be found in the area.The third photo shows our group of intrepid adventurers who make the trek...

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The Dead Sea

by marielexoteria

The lowest point on Earth with a depth of about 400m under the sea level. The saltiest body of water, where swimming and drowning isn't possible. A lot can be said about this beautiful and remarkable place, tucked in between Israel and Jordan.Our last stop in our road trip was the Dead Sea, on the road to Ein Boqeq, one of the many resort towns on this area. We took our picture here and went back home but the day after we came back for me to experience one of the classic things tourists like doing: floating. Now, I'm a bad swimmer and I had a hard time floating but this was because I couldn't relax...so there are no pictures of me floating hehe.When in the water the skin gets a silky smooth feeling and that's due to the minerals in the water. Now, 3 things you shouldn't do when visiting the Dead Sea:(1) do *not* shave the day before or the day you're visiting(2) do *not* splash around(3)...

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Mount Sodom (Har Sedom)

by marielexoteria

At some point of our lives, we (might) have read about Sodom and Gomorra, the 2 cities that were banished from the planet by the wrath of God because its inhabitants were misbehaving very badly...what caught my attention was that we were driving and stepping on rock salt (or halite, I imagined, hard packed) and soil, as well as the views of the Dead Sea and some of the Jordanian towns at the other side.After visiting and taking some pictures at the observation place on top of the mountain, we drove thru Canyon Sodom, a popular place for some mountain bike tours. I would only recommend that you drive with a 4x4 and with someone who has some experience in this, because to be able to move on some parts of the terrain, we had to actually drive on the walls to be able to pass some curves.

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Ein Boqeq

by Kuznetsov_Sergey

Ein Bokek is a hotel and resort district on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea.Situated at the foot of the spring which gives its name, this tourist and therapeutic complex is the biggest and most developed along the entire Dead Sea coast. Ein Bokek is now a modern oasis and panacea for health seekers and tourists alike and lies in stark contrast to the barren, rugged and genesis landscape of the Judean Desert Cliffs surrounding the area.You can watch my 2 min 20 sec HD Video Dead Sea 'En Boqeq part 2 out of my Youtube channel.

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The Concretion Field by Mount Tzin (Har Tzin)

by marielexoteria

The next stops in our road trip were Mount Tzin and the Concretion Field in the area. A concretion is like a medium size boulder and there's lots of it in this area. The smaller ones are all scattered around the ground, while the bigger ones are arranged in statues of some sort.The rocks are also called bulbs, probably because the Hebrew word for them is "bulbusim". I found the smaller bulbs to be so pretty that I called the area "the Valley of the Rocks".In some of the bigger bulbs there's sea shells and some people were there looking for shark teeth, which indicates that the area might've been under the sea at some point in history.

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The Scorpion Ascent (Ma'ale Akkrabim)

by marielexoteria

Moving on in our road trip and leaving the Makhtesh area behind, we proceeded towards Mount Tzin by the way of the Scorpion Ascent. This road is the former road between Eilat and Be'er Sheva until the built a new highway, but its origins go way back to the Bible and the Roman times and this is a road used on the Independence war by the Israeli troops when they were on their way to Eilat.While I think that a more appropriate name would be "Snake Road", the name actually comes from the Bible. Akkrabim is the Hebrew word for "scorpion" and this name was mentioned in Numbers, chapter 34 (information from a panel on the road) and in the book of Joshua.There's a small lookout point where you can admire the stunning views of the area.

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The Colored Sands

by marielexoteria

Still in the Big Makhtesh Nature Reserve and not far from the Petrified Trees, we found the site of the Colored Sands. The oxidation process of the minerals in the terrain color the rocks and the sands, giving the site a very nice look, contrasting with the landscape of white and "beige" sand. In some of the rocks there are holes that, at first, looked as if it was nests for who knows which animal...I asked...and then I found out that those holes are man made and with soda bottles, to extract some salt.The colors I saw were red (iron), yellow, purple, orange, white and a wee bit of green (copper) that I saw on a picture I took.

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The Petrified (or Fossilized) Trees

by marielexoteria

In the Big Makhtesh Valley there are 2 natural sights of interest. The first one is the Petrified Trees. These are real logs that time and a process called "permineralization" have "created". By this process, all the organic materials are replaced with minerals. I knocked on the wood and they indeed felt like stone.On the vicinity, you can observe a little bit of what the next sight will show you, namely some colored sands. Here I had a close encounter with a snake, so be careful and pay attention to the tracks you might find on the sand.

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Q:  Can I just buy the bus ticket from the central bus station in Jerusalem when take Bus 486 or Bus 487 to En Gedi Nature Reserve on... 

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