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: Nitzana Area
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
Cafe Ezuz
Living in a spectacular desert landscape as we do, they come here to make desert movies; directors, camera-men and actors from Tel Aviv check into our guesthouse for a week or two, they make us feel glamorous, then they leave. One of the movies was ‘At The End of the World Turn Left’.
Hamukei Nitzana – Nitzana Hillocks
I’m not sure you want to drive 50 minutes from our guesthouse just for this, but if you are planning to visit Shivta and eat at Café Ezuz then the Nitzana Hillocks would be a fine additional activity.
The Nabatean city of Shivta
Shivta is one of five ruins in Israel’s Negev desert [along with Mamshit, Avdat, Tel Nitzana and Halutza] that were built and inhabited by the Nabateans from 500 BCE to 700 CE. These cities grew in strength and prosperity over 1200 years, and then they died, all of them and all at around the same time.
Kornmehl farm, goat cheese and restaurant
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Kornmehl Restaurant sits atop a desolate hill on Route 40 one kilometre south of the 211 turn-off, a 15 minutes drive from our guesthouse. All you can see of it from the road below are rows of parked cars of the customers,
The Nitzana Salient – things to do along the 211 road
To get to the Nitzana Salient, take road 40 going North. At Tlalim Junction, turns left to road 211. It shoots like an arrow straight at Egyptian Sinai and comes to a dead end.
