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Touring the South with Travel Hotels Chain<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

From autumn until the end of spring, the weather is perfect for trips. You can hike on foot, ride bicycles, enjoy picnics in nature reserves, and experience clean air and blue skies most days of the year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Places to Visit in the South<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

The South is a vast area suitable for everyone. The \"Darom Adom\" (Red South) festival will introduce you to amazing wildflower blooms in the northern Negev region. You can find water trails in the Ein Gedi Reserve (Nahal David and Nahal Arugot). In winter, the few rainy days create spectacular flash floods, and you can find water in natural pools and reservoirs. You can visit well-known sites like Masada and enjoy special tours during full moon nights, such as the Sculpture Garden and the breathtaking Star Path in Mitzpe Ramon. Enjoy a picnic in Sapir Park, visit the Science Museum in Beer Sheva, and enjoy family-friendly hikes at spectacular sites like Timna Park, roll in sand dunes like in Samar or Kasui Sands, and challenge yourselves on routes that include ladders and stakes like in the Red Canyon. The diverse landscape and variety of options provide a wide range of touring routes in the south\u2014allowing you to stop for a picnic, take a short circular walking route, visit an art house or air-conditioned visitor center, combine a restaurant visit, and arrive at your hotel all in the same day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Interesting Stops - Food, Hiking, and Everything in Between<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

The road south is a winding path with ups and downs. You can travel south via Highway 90 (Arava Road) or Highway 40 (Mitzpe Ramon). We recommend stopping at breathtaking viewpoints; the mountains that spread before you are a unique sight in the southern region. Interesting stops will accompany you along the way, from local restaurants with excellent home cooking (Yeruham's Cooks Project is a wonderful social initiative), cool food trucks (The Super Food Truck in Lotan), restaurants that incorporate local agricultural produce in their menu (Tzofer Vegetable Garden), and catering services that allow you to collect food for a picnic or your accommodation (Afroni BaMidbar in the Central Arava, Kapot Tmarim in Kibbutz Eilot). We recommend planning your stopping points and enjoying a wonderful combination of special local food, amazing scenery, and crystal-clear air.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Tours in the Arava<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

The Arava region starts from Arava Junction and ends at Kibbutz Eilot, at the entrance to Eilat. The route combines the Arava moshavim (Hatzeva, Idan, Ein Yahav, and more) and the southern Arava kibbutzim (Yotvata, Ketura, Lotan, Elifaz, and more). You can combine circular hiking routes suitable for families, which include walking, and some include climbing, cave exploration, ladder climbing, stakes, etc. In the Central Arava area, you can hike at Hatzeva Hill (entrance from Ein Hatzeva - Ir Ovot), a trip that includes climbing a hill, amazing views, and spectacular sand dunes, which are recommended to visit in the afternoon when the mountains change color to red. Amram's Pillars, Shchoret Canyon, and the hiking trails in Timna Park will give you a glimpse of impressive, enormous sand pillars (15 meters high!), where you can discover ancient structures that served the ancient copper mines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Cycling Routes in the Southern Arava<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

The Southern Arava is a paradise for cyclists. Perfect weather most of the year attracts professional cyclists from around the world to enjoy riding in desert terrain with perfect weather, blue skies, and clear air. The Samarathon event is a large multi-day riding event that attracts riders from Israel and abroad to enjoy riding on the Southern Arava singles - Yahel-Ketura, Ketura-Yotvata, the riding routes in the mountain area near Neot Smadar, and the singles in Timna Village. The Israel Bike Trail, the Shaharut-Ketura single, and additional routes provide challenging and enjoyable trails for riders. There are also riding routes suitable for the average rider, family routes, and roads adapted for cycling. At Timna Park, you can rent bicycles, and at Kibbutz Lotan, you can enjoy a circular route that surrounds the kibbutz on the perimeter path, from the Eco-Fun Park, through the dairy farm and orchards parallel to the kibbutz fence. Guests at Lotan Desert Travel Hotel<\/strong><\/a> can enjoy the option of storing their bicycles overnight in designated spaces, packed meals for cyclists, and organizing rooms for those returning from rides.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Family Tours<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

The southern region is abundant with routes suitable for families. The Hai-Bar in Yotvata, the Eco-Kef in Lotan, the Visitor Center in Hatzeva (Vidor), the Sculpture Garden in Mitzpe Ramon, the Antelope Farm, Yotvata Park, and Sapir Park all have hiking routes suitable for families and accessible for strollers. For hiking enthusiasts, we recommend the hiking route of Nahal Barak in the Arava, tours in the Ein Bokek and Nahal Tamar area, Ramon Crater, Amram's Pillars, and Ein Avdat. The vast and diverse terrain, different forms of settlement, historical natural wonders, mountains, and craters will provide you with a large and fascinating variety of tours in the southern region suitable for all ages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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