Nahariya & Western Galilee - Nahariya

Nahariya is the definitive one-street resort town: bus and train station on one end, ocean on the other, and pleasant commercial strip between. In 1934 German Jews first settled the area as a farming village on the Ga’aton River, which now, dwindled by pumps upstream, trickles unimpressively in a concrete channel down the center of the main thoroughfare. Though equipped with a fine beach and some lively bars, popular with UN soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon, the town is more noteworthy as a convenient base for sights to the northern coast antl Western Galilee.