The Israel Trail – a hiker’s dream

25.06.2012                      05.Tammus. 5772

Erkunde Israel:

The Israel Trail – a hiker's dream

Instead of seeing the holy land through bus windows and tour guide books, why not take a path less traveled?

Israel – arguably the world's largest small country and certainly its most diverse – is a hiker's paradise. Paths like the Bible Trail on Mount Gilboa, the Gospel Trail or Jesus Trail in the Galilee link sites sacred to Jews and Christians while passing through breathtaking mountain landscapes. The Kinneret Trail and the Jerusalem Trail, both currently under development, will respectively encircle Israel's largest freshwater lake and the country's historic capital. Even more ambitious, the Abraham's Path links the route of patriarch of Jews and Muslims across, Turkey, Syria, the Palestinian Authority territory, Israel and Egypt….