{"id":315,"date":"2014-04-06T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T07:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramonextreme.co.il\/?page_id=315"},"modified":"2014-04-06T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T07:05:36","slug":"taste-of-nitzana-bicycle-tour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ramonextreme.co.il\/en\/routes\/taste-of-nitzana-bicycle-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"“Taste of Nitzana” Bicycle Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/b>Starting Point: Club Ramon Spa Hotel, Mizpe Ramon. Transport from the Hotel to Nitzana.\"122\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The trail is marked \u2013 updated biking maps are available.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We start the tour at the entrance to the Nitzana Educational community. Ride south <\/b>toward Tel <\/b>Nitzana, passing by the Raful Farm and the Belzberg tree coppices. Tel Nitzana is visible at 1.5 Kms, rising high above the plain, with an ancient ruin at its top. Reaching the Peace Monument \u2013 a long row of columns \u2013 turn east<\/b> to the left and cross the road through the underpass.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Nitzana was identified as a Nabataean town by British archeologists already in the 19th<\/sup> century. Much information about the site is available at the Nitzana Museum. Climb<\/b> the Tel from the parking lot.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Descend<\/b> from the Tel and pass it on the south-east. <\/b>Here, at the foot of the hill, the very deep wells that served the inhabitants of the town in different eras are still visible. Also visible is the Memorial to the soldiers of the IDF, killed in battle in this region during Israel’s War of Independence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0From the ruins of Nitzana continue south <\/b>on the old <\/b>British road, toward Nitzana Cave and the “curves of Nitzana”. At the junction<\/b>, find <\/b>the bike-track signs which will take you on a dirt road to Nitzana Cave, man-made by the Nabataeans. The track climbs west<\/b>, leading us back to the road. Continue<\/b> on the road to the sign directing left<\/b> to the “curves of Nitzana”. Here bikes must be left at the parking \u2013 due to reasons of protection of nature, entry to this site is on foot only. The moonscape of white soft Chalk is captivating.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Continue <\/b>in the ravine beginning at the sign to Tel Nitzana. Ride north <\/b>toward <\/b>the <\/b>cultivated plots of Moshav Kadesh Barnea visible on the horizon. Along this ravine there are many traces of ancient terraces. Look sharply and you will also observe ancient Olive trees \u2013 remnants age-old agricultural activity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ride on <\/b>to the Selah coppice, irrigated with saline waters. Going on northward, <\/b>you reach artist’s Danny Caravan Peace Monument <\/b>already seen before from its east side. This monument is composed of one hundred columns, the first of which is on the border with Egypt; each column is inscribed with the word peace<\/i> in a different language. Turn left<\/b> and ride along the monument to the “hill of four columns”, overlooking the Sinai and the Israel-Egypt border crossing and goods terminal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0From this observation point, ride back <\/b>along the monument, until <\/b>you reach <\/b>the memorial coppice to Danny Perry. Immediately thereafter carefully cross<\/b> the main road to the north<\/b> and ride on the side road serving the cultivated plots. Along the road there are plantations of pomegranates (very sweet although watered with local saline water\u2026), hundreds of dunams of hothouses with sweet cherry tomatoes, and the vineyards of the Kadesh Barnea Winery.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the Moshav (village) of Kadesh Barnea you may visit the winery, the artisanal producer of local honey, and the sauce factory (which is making use of the local tomatoes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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