Close your eyes and imagine the products you will be able to find in the Negev; I bet wine is not going to be at the top of your list. And yet wine tasting or even a full wine tour will be surprisingly easy to organize. As a matter of fact, if you are a lover of the genre, you could build your entire stay in the area around the history of wine and wine tasting.
Category: Meet the Locals
Mitzpe Revivim
A great place to visit that is finally opening to the public
For the last twenty years, the mere mention of Mitzpe Revivim would send me into a fit of mild depression. Not that the place in itself was depressing, as a matter of fact, quite the opposite, but because it was always closed.
The not so Secret Life of the Nubian Ibex
We are in the third week of our second lockdown and in order to keep sane and busy, I have tackled a new hobby (a favorite among visitors to the area): I am observing and photographing Nubian Ibex everyday for about two hours.
Rappelling with Adam Sela
We have neither bungee jumping nor sky-diving, but we have excellent rappelling (or snappling). It generally takes the form of a long and strenuous climb followed by a quick and thrilling descent.
Iris Barazani, Tour Guide and Actress in Residence at Shivta
I met Iris for the first time about a year ago. We were taking a class for tourism operators together and one of our first exercises was to introduce ourselves and describe our work in less than two minutes. Given the mumbo-jumbo most of us were able to come up with, it turns out this is not such a simple task. But
Haim Berger – NegevJeep
Haim is a tour guide, he works day and night and I think he should slow down.
David and Paula Ben Gurion’s Desert Home
At the start of 1954 David Ben Gurion announced that he would be resigning from politics and would move to Sde Boqer. This astounded the Israeli public, not the least the young pioneers who had created the the communal farm three years previously. His immediate entourage also had one or two reservations.
Ezra Orion
“No prophet is recognized in his own country.”
Ezra Orion was a controversial Israeli artist. In 1988, at a meeting at NASA headquarters in Washington, he proposed erecting a line of stones on Mars using a space vehicle.
The Nabateans
Masters of the incense route
From time immemorial, there was a demand in Europe for spices and precious items from the East. The only route (via Yemen) to Europe (via Gaza) was overland, across 2200 km of empty desert as there was no economic sea route.
Ringing with Darren the Birder
I was born in Staffordshire in the Midlands of England, as a lad I was a punk rocker. I’ve always liked birds. I traveled the world for several years and met an Israeli girl in Nepal, we stayed in touch. I was in Syria in 2002,
