Track: Ein Ovdat

As a water source in the middle of the desert, Ein Avdat has always attracted humans and animals. Nowadays it is a popular hiking spot due to the beauty of the steep canyon in which it is located. The Ein Avdat national park encompasses the canyon for all its length. And visitors can start their route from the lower entrance and climb up half way to see the fall from the top.
Visitors arriving to the northern, lower entrance of the canyon can see a tiny spring of Ein Mor just across the parking lot, It is at the right side of a riverbed near two tall Euphrates poplar trees. In the cliffs above Ein Mor, at Rosh Mor, the prehistoric flint tools were found.
The trail continues along the riverbed, the canyon grows narrower and its walls are taller. A lone Atlantic terebinth tree on the left from the trail is estimated to be 350 years old. After this tree the stream bed begins to carry water, and soon the trail reaches the most impressive point of the site. The two walls of the canyon close, and from the height of 15 m. a waterfall splashes into a deep pool, divided into two parts by a small artificial dam. A stairway leading up is carved into the cliff some 100 meters before the waterfall. For those wishing to return to the lower parking lot this is the best turning point.
Another path, more convenient, turns right before the stairs and
leads along the base of a cliff to a two room man-made hermit cave.
This cave is one of the caves that were inhabited by monks during
Byzantine times. It is decorated by a cross, incised above a niche that
was cut.

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