Although every season is a good season to visit the Negev (see our post about winter and summer), spring is considered to be the best season to do so.
Spring in Israel is not a real season. It is still very much part of the winter when you have a difference between gorgeous days (the vast majority) and rainy days. February, March and April are the most popular months for visiting the Negev. You have more chance of having gorgeous weather, between 20-25C, than say December or January. Although of course, there is no guarantee. Actually, this year, we had our first rain at the end of February and it has rained several times in March. Last year, the biggest floods occurred at the end of April…
Another reason is that days are longer so you have more hours to hike. And last but not least… the flowers.
At this time of the year, they are simply everywhere! A few weeks ago, I decided I wanted to go and take some pictures of some dunes in the Nitzana area. But at the end of Febvruary, I found it difficult to find a few square centimeters of sand. The dunes were literally buried under flowers!
Some hikes which are not on a priority list all year round suddenly become unmissable like the Lost city, Borot Lotz or Nahal Hatzatz.
On top of the flowers, you also have a very good chance of finding water everywhere… Not just in Ein Akev or Ein Avdat which both have water all year round. But litteraly everywhere. Har Tzaror, Upper Ein Avdat, Nahal Haverim, Nahal Karkash, Ein Saharonim, Ein Yorkeam, Gev Yamin…
But spring has one drawback… It can sometimes be a victim of its own success. Especially in March, the month, it turns out, for schools to have their annual excursions…
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Which leads to this kind a situation…
Not to mention the fact that people and especially school kids on a school excursion love to leave marks of their passage.
Here we have a young Noa who was so kin for the world to know she had been here (Nahal Haverim), that she wrote her name with stones…
Sometimes, the marks left are quite nice…
And other times they are not so nice… Left to be picked up by the rangers in the evening…
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