Getting Around

It is possible to tour most of the Golan by Egged bus, but infrequent service along infrequently traveled roads makes careful planning a necessity. Double-check all schedules. Traveling by bus almost definitely writes off Gamla and Brekhat haMe-shushim; anticipate a fair amount of walking as well, which means you’ll need a hat and buckets of water in the hot summer (winter, on the other hand, is cold, darnp foggy, and often snowy). In general, buses to sites east of and near the Kinneret leave from Tiberias.

The Upper Galilee, Hula Valley, and northern Golan are served by buses from Kiryat Shmona and occasionally from Tzfat. The bus from Tzw1 crosses the B’not Ya’akov Bridge over the Jordan River some 10km from Katzrio-According to legend, this is where Jacob and his family were when his daughter predicted that the siblings would sell their brother into slavery in Egypt. The B’not Ya’akov (Daughters of Jacob), however, comes from a Crusader order of by the same name.