Israel National Trail
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The Israel National Trail (Hebrew שביל ישראל, Shvil Yisrael) is Israel’s best-known long-distance hiking trail. It runs for about 1,000 km from the northern edge of the country near Kibbutz Dan to Eilat on the Red Sea, crossing the Galilee, the Carmel Range, the Israeli Coastal Plain, the Jerusalem Hills, the Dead Sea region and the Negev.
The trail is normally walked and takes about 40–60 days for an average thru-hiker. It can also be walked in shorter sections. The route links historic sites, villages, towns, forests, desert landscapes, biblical places, modern cities and remote wilderness, making it both a demanding hike and a broad introduction to the landscapes of Israel.
Israel National Trail旅遊指南
城市概覽
When Avraham Tamir, a journalist and writer (for the children's magazine, Thing for Children), hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1980, he came up with the inspiration for the Israel Trail. Upon returning to Israel, Tamir approached ITC (ITC, the Israel Trails Committee, is housed by SPNI, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel) Director Ori Devir with the idea. A long-time veteran and founder of SPNI, Ori Devir contemplated the idea, fell in love it, and began the long process of establishing the Trail. Devir and his team collected ideas and feedback from tour guides, park rangers, hikers and veteran nature lovers. After much investigation, bureaucracy and hard work, 15 years later ITC opened the Israel Trail with then President Ezer Weitzman conducting the ceremony on Passover 1995. Most of the Israel Trail was patched together from the network of thousands of kilometers of pre-existing trails across the country. The trail system stringently protects environmental concerns and each region's character. The Israel Trail was intended for hiking by foot only, but as a result of jeeps driving the trails, some sections of the trail are now accessible not only to jeeps, but to regular private cars. You can get to the trail by foot, car and even public transit. Along the trail, informational signs feature maps, background on the area and interesting sites, trail rules and emergency phone numbers. In 1994, Yariv Ya'ari was the first person to hike the entire Israel Trail and he completed the trail in 21 days. More and more people began to hike the Israel Trail and today tens of thousands of people hike the Israel Trail every year! In October 2006, Avraham Tamir's young son Mickey Tamir hiked the Israel Trail to mark his father's 100th birthday and his own 60th birthday. Thousands of groups hike a section of the Israel Trail, hiking once a month or so, until they complete the entire trail within two years. The trail crosses Israel from north to south. It passes clos
順遊推薦
From Eilat, rest by the Red Sea, visit the Eilat Mountains or continue by bus or flight to other parts of Israel. From the northern end near Kibbutz Dan, nearby options include Tel Dan, the Galilee Panhandle, the Golan Heights and other hikes in northern Israel. Hikers who completed only part of the route can continue with regional trails such as the Jerusalem Trail, the Sea to Sea route across the Galilee, or other walks described in Hiking and backpacking in Israel.
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