Israel
30 routes
Cities & areas
- 4 routes Photo: Davidbena · CC BY-SA 4.0
Golan Heights - 4 routes Photo: Jan Helebrant · CC0
Judaean Desert - 4 routes Photo: Yuvalr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lower Galilee - 3 routes Photo: Edmund Gall · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jerusalem - 3 routes Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.0
Upper Galilee - 2 routes Photo: Hanan epstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
Negev - 2 routes Photo: Pacman · Public domain
Western Galilee - 1 route Photo: israeltourism from Israel · CC BY 2.0
Acre (Akko) - 1 route Photo: The original uploader was אסף.צ at Hebrew Wikipedia. · Public domain
Caesarea Maritima National Park - 1 route Photo: Arash Hashemi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Haifa - 1 route Photo: Israel_photo_gallery · CC BY-SA 2.0
Nazareth - 1 route Photo: Omer berner · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern District - 1 route Photo: Little Savage · Public domain
Southern District - 1 route Photo: Ynhockey · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Long-distance trails
Routes in Israel
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Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelAgamon Hula — The Cranes of the Hula Valley
A flat circuit of the restored lake in the Hula Valley, one of the great bottlenecks of the Europe–Africa flyway, where tens of thousands of common cranes spend the winter within metres of a covered hide.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Omer berner · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelBeit She'an: Walking Roman Scythopolis
The most complete Roman-Byzantine city in Israel — a colonnaded main street, a theatre for about 7,000, two bathhouses, and columns still lying where an earthquake threw them in 749.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The original uploader was אסף.צ at Hebrew Wikipedia. · Public domainCity walk IsraelCaesarea Maritima: Herod's Roman Port by the Sea
One easy day through a Roman capital on the Mediterranean — theatre, seaside palace, chariot track, Crusader harbour and a great aqueduct on the beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hanan epstein · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelEin Avdat: The White Canyon of Zin
A short, vertical day in the Negev — a white chalk gorge with a 15-metre waterfall, spring-fed pools, Byzantine monks' caves and a ladder climb out onto the rim above the Wilderness of Zin.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Jan Helebrant · CC0Trek IsraelEin Gedi Nature Reserve: Nahal David and the David Waterfall
A short, water-rich hike up a desert canyon to the David Waterfall, then higher to a hidden cave, a spring and a 5,000-year-old temple above the Dead Sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Davidbena · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelGamla: The Fallen City, the Vultures and the Waterfall
One full day in the central Golan linking three separate trails — a besieged Roman-era city on a camel-hump ridge, a cliff lookout over Israel's largest griffon vulture colony, and the country's highest waterfall.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Arash Hashemi · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk IsraelHaifa: The Baháʼí Terraces, the German Colony and Wadi Nisnas
One downhill day across Mount Carmel — nineteen garden terraces, a golden shrine, a Templer boulevard, an Arab market quarter, and a cable car back to the sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Asaf T. · Public domainCity walk IsraelHerodium: Herod's Cone-Shaped Palace-Fortress
A single day at the mountain Herod the Great raised for himself in the desert — the climb up the artificial cone, the round towers, the theatre with its royal box, the Bar Kokhba tunnels and the tomb.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Photo: Edmund Gall · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk Israel
Jerusalem: A Walk Through the Old City's Four Quarters
One day on foot through a single square kilometre that is holy to half the world — the Armenian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Quarters, the Western Wall, the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Emilio García from Parla, Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelMahane Yehuda and Nachlaot: The Shuk by Day and by Night
Jerusalem's market at full volume, the courtyard lanes of Nachlaot behind it, and the shutter portraits that only appear after closing time.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMakhtesh Ramon — Rim to Crater Floor
One to two days in the world's largest erosion crater: the rim promenade at Mitzpe Ramon, the prismatic stone columns of the Carpentry, the coloured sands of the Ardon valley and the desert spring at Ein Saharonim.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMasada Snake Path: Sunrise Ascent to the Desert Fortress
A pre-dawn climb up the winding Snake Path from the Dead Sea shore to reach Herod's cliff-top fortress just as the sun breaks over the desert.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Yuvalr · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelMount Arbel: The Cliff Above the Sea of Galilee
A short, spectacular day above the Kinneret — the best lookout in the Galilee, a steep cliff descent on iron handholds, the rebel caves of Qal'at Ibn Ma'an, and out through Wadi Hamam.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Noamdahary · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMount Tabor: The Dome Above the Jezreel Valley
A half-day climb up the switchbacks of the Galilee's most distinctive hill, to a summit shared by a Franciscan basilica, a Greek Orthodox monastery and one of the great views in Israel.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Pacman · Public domainTrek IsraelNahal Amud — Springs, Canyon and the Pillar Rock
A descent through the shaded canyon of the Amud Stream in the Upper Galilee, past year-round springs and pools to the tall pillar of rock that gave the stream its name, on down toward the Sea of Galilee.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Pacman · Public domainTrek IsraelNahal Kziv and Montfort Castle
A full day in the Galilee's greenest canyon — running water in every season, plane trees and oleander along the streambed, and a ruined Crusader castle on the spur above.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Hanay · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelNahal Yehudiya — The Canyon, the Ladder and the Swim
A hard water route down a basalt canyon in the central Golan: an iron ladder bolted to the cliff drops you into a pool you can only cross by swimming, then the trail runs on past the falls and the hexagonal columns.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: CarmelH1 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelNimrod Fortress: A Muslim Stronghold on the Slopes of Hermon
A walk through the largest medieval fortress in Israel — the keep, a hidden staircase down to a secret cistern, the great towers and their Arabic inscriptions, strung along a knife-edge ridge with the Hula Valley spread out below.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: israeltourism from Israel · CC BY 2.0City walk IsraelOld City of Acre: Crusaders, Khans and the Sea Walls
One easy day inside a walled port city where a Crusader fortress hides underground beneath an Ottoman capital, ringed by sea walls that stopped Napoleon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Israel_photo_gallery · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelOld Nazareth on Foot: Basilica, Souk and the Living Village
A gentle day threading the Old City — from the vast Basilica of the Annunciation through the covered souk to the recreated first-century village on the hillside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Tamarah · CC BY-SA 2.5City walk IsraelQumran: The Settlement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A single day on the marl plateau above the Dead Sea, where the caves gave up the Dead Sea Scrolls — the ruined settlement, the ritual baths, the scriptorium, the water system and the long argument over who lived here.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chmee2 · CC BY 3.0City walk IsraelRosh HaNikra: The Grottoes at the End of the Country
A short, easy visit at Israel's northwestern corner — the steepest cable car in the world down a white chalk cliff, sea-carved grottoes, and a Mandate-era railway tunnel that stops at the Lebanese border.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ynhockey · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelTel Aviv & Jaffa: From the Old Port to the White City
A single day on foot from ancient Jaffa north along the beach promenade through Neve Tzedek, Bauhaus boulevards and the Carmel Market to the Tel Aviv Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hanay · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelTel Dan Nature Reserve: The Jordan's Source and the House of David
A short, shaded walk through the lushest corner of the Galilee — wading the cold Dan Stream, then climbing the tel past the world's oldest arched gate to where the 'House of David' inscription was found.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: gugganij · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelThe Banias: Spring of Pan to the Waterfall
An easy day through the Hermon Stream reserve — from the cave and spring of Pan along a suspended riverside trail past Roman palace ruins to Israel's largest waterfall.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zeromancer44 · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelThe Jesus Trail: Nazareth to Capernaum
Four days on foot across the Lower Galilee, from Nazareth over the hills to the Sea of Galilee, tracing a path Jesus may have walked and stringing together ancient towns, panoramic ridges and lakeside holy sites.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 65 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Little Savage · Public domainTrek IsraelTimna Park — Copper, Sandstone and Solomon's Pillars
A full day threading the red sandstone of the southern Negev: the Mushroom, the Arches, ancient Egyptian copper mines and rock carvings, and the towering Solomon's Pillars.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Almog · Public domainCity walk IsraelZippori: Mosaics of the Roman Galilee
An easy day among the finest mosaic floors in Israel — the 'Mona Lisa of the Galilee', the Nile House, a Roman theatre, a Crusader keep and a water system cut through solid rock.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelMount Herzl and Yad Vashem
A day on the western ridge of Jerusalem: Israel's national cemetery, and the Holocaust memorial that shares the hill with it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy