Nature

From Addis to Omo: A journey to Ethiopia's cultural heart

From Addis Ababa to the Omo Valley, a journey through communities, rituals, and traditions that tell how human beings learn to live with the land, the water, and the reality around them.

Journey in Ethiopia.
Ran (top) and Nidal (bottom), two young green sea turtles, during breakfast in the rehabilitation pool at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center.

Five sea turtles return to nature after rehabilitation, Israel Nature and Parks Authority announces

Belvoir National Park.

The best family trips and nature routes for Rosh Hashanah

Blue, clear and steaming hot. This is what Ein Jones looked like in the past.

Battle over Ein Jones spring: NIS 2M project sparks controversy


Summer returns to the Gaza Border Region with dozens of agricultural activities

Touch the Land will run August 6–22, offering families subsidized agricultural activities, tours, navigation, cycling, and desert night experiences.

Koch Farm – the Touch the Land initiative.

Wine, sunset, and music among the ruins: Tu B'Av celebration returns to Ovdat

Ovdat National Park will host a Tu B'Av wine event with Negev tastings, ancient winepress tours, sunset music, and family activities.

Ovdat National Park.

For just NIS 10: The tours and attractions waiting in the Jordan Valley this summer

Wet tours, birdwatching, sunsets, night safaris, stargazing, and visits to local farms: The Wet Valley festival has opened, offering a wide array of activities throughout the summer.

Sukkot Spring.

The other Romania: The villages, people, and roads waiting around the corner

After eight years, we returned to Transylvania to rediscover Saxon villages, mountain roads, ancient traditions, and people who remind us to travel slowly and embrace the unexpected along the way.

Bears in Romania.

Pumping water and prioritizing agriculture threatens ecological collapse

A new study reveals that human management and water allocation leave nature as the last consumer in line, severely threatening ecosystems, biodiversity, and local tourism.

The combination of extreme drought and artificial water diversion has created an emergency situation. Gesher Hadodot over the Jordan River

We woke up at 23:00 and the sun was still shining: The journey to northern Norway

A midnight sun that does not set, dramatic fjords, fishing villages that look like a painting. A journey to Tromsø and the Lofoten Islands – the place where nature still dictates the rules.

View from the observation point in Tromsø

Six Senses Shaharut offers Tu B’Av experience blending cuisine, art, and desert

The luxury resort in the Arava will host chefs Elazar Tamano and David Biton for a special Tu B’Av weekend featuring a chef dinner, sunset events, workshops, and stargazing.

Six Senses Shaharut.

Lantern Tours, stargazing and, night swimming: The new summer experience in northern Israel

Lantern tours, stargazing, campfires and night swimming headline NIR DAVID Tourism's 2026 summer program across northern Israel.

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Hiking in the Holy Land: Ein Haniya, an easy water outing outside Jerusalem

A Roman fountain and Byzantine pools, hiding in plain sight on the outskirts of the capital.

WHAT MAKES Ein Haniya special is that the beauty here is not only natural. It is layered. The spring emerges from a short rock-cut tunnel and flows, as it has for centuries, along a reconstructed aqueduct that carries it over a low arch and spills it into a large stone pool.

Autumn is already peeking: The first squill of the season has bloomed in Israel

Documentation from the Carmel coast reveals the beginning of the blooming of the squills – The first flower that heralds the changing of the seasons.

Shahaf Retter, director of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel’s Carmel Coast Field School, which is located in Ma'agan Michael, documented a lone squill in the field school area